The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 (50 years old this year) protected more than 12,000 miles of wild, scenic, and recreational rivers. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A ...

The National Wild and Scenic Rivers system, created by Congress in 1968, now protects 208 waterways—and this map shows all of them. Scientists who use Gaia GPS to help record data while out in ...

In Wild and Scenic Rivers: An American Legacy, author and photographer Tim Palmer makes the case for protecting yet more sections of the nation’s approximately 2.9 million miles of natural ...

WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS. America's rivers act as veins of life, threading across the nation to nurture countless plant and animal species with their precious water and bringing beauty and ...

WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS. America's rivers act as veins of life, threading across the nation to nurture countless plant and animal species with their precious water and bringing beauty and ...

While many river lovers are familiar with the stunning Wild and Scenic lower Rogue River (think multi-day raft and backpacking trips west of Grants Pass), the upper Rogue Wild and Scenic stretch ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The U.S. Forest Service promised to create new boundaries and protections for two federally designated Wild and Scenic Rivers in Northern California. The settlement ends a lawsuit ...

(WPRI) — There are more than 200 rivers in 40 states across the country in the National Wild Scenic River System, and now seven of them are in Rhode Island. The rivers make up the Wood-Pawcatuck ...

In 1985, this outstanding Florida river earned its status as a National Wild and Scenic River, which is a federal designation that recognizes outstanding natural, cultural and recreational values ...

Oregon’s 68 current wild and scenic rivers. People across Eastern Oregon — and the rest of the state, for that matter — are right to question a proposal by Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron ...

A great opportunity to protect the waters of the Gila comes with the reintroduction of the M.H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and Scenic River Act by New Mexico's U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and ...

The National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (NWSRA) currently designates only 76 miles of one river, the Cache La Poudre, ... a policy proposal, and maps. Apply for Admission . Contact Us . Masters of the ...