By Beverly Payton Chances are that if you were asked to name some animals that make up the wonderful diversity of wildlife in and around our streams and rivers, you … Read more
Rivers
NWF Book Club: A River Lost
This Month’s Book: A River Lost “Your Power is Turning Our Darkness to Dawn…” We hope you’ve had time to check out “A River Lost: The Life and Death of … Read more
Thank You, Clean Water Act, for Our Fishable Waters!
Forty years ago, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River was in flames and Lake Erie was a biological wasteland. Many of the nation’s rivers were little more than open sewers. On October 18, … Read more
The Clean Water Act: Up Close and Personal
There’s an adage about the sport of fishing that suggests a person can pursue this national pastime for an entire lifetime and never come to the realization that catching fish has … Read more
Fishing the Nottoway: A Clean Water Blessing
This is a guest post by Jeff Turner, Blackwater/Nottoway Riverkeeper My Dad and I were fishing the Nottoway River in Virginia a few years ago, a river I grew up on … Read more
Hunters and Anglers Favor Restoring Clean Water Act Protections for Wetlands and Streams
This is a guest post by G. Richard Mode from the North Carolina Wildlife Federation. Just last week a national poll of hunters and anglers reaffirmed what we all know: regardless … Read more

Celebrating the Clean Water Act as We Restore the Anacostia River
This is a guest post by Kellie Bolinder. Restoring the Anacostia River here means more than just clean water to the Earth Conservation Corps. The heavily polluted Anacostia River flows through … Read more

Montana Sushi Girl: My Fish Tale
The first time I took my daughter camping we went to Rock Creek, a blue ribbon trout stream just 30 minutes east of Missoula, Montana. My father took me there … Read more

Rafting in Colorado After the Fire
Rafting on a popular Colorado river gives an NWF staff person a first-person view of the fire’s impacts. Read more

Salmon Study: What Does it Take to Survive a Warming River?
Sockeye salmon are one of many species of wildlife who will need to adapt to warming water temperatures caused by climate change… or die. A new study published this week … Read more