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Explore Rio Chama River Permits in Rio Chama Wild and Scenic River, New Mexico with Recreation.gov. The Rio Chama is the third largest tributary of the Rio Grande, about 120 miles long. Beginning in the southern San Juan Mountains of south-central Colorado, i
A Stronger Electricity Grid Is Crucial to Cutting Carbon. Does that Make It Green? A proposal to lay cables beneath the Columbia River is met with skepticism from an Indigenous activist and the river’s advocates. Peter Fairley Today | The Tyee / Investigate West Peter Fairley is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria and San Francisco, whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, NewScientist, Hakai Magazine, Technology Review, the Atlantic, Nature and elsewhere. SHARES Wind etches the Columbia River’s surface downstream of Squally Point, at rig...
Can slicing a 100-mile-long trench into the bed of the Columbia River — the iconic giant whose flow binds British Columbia, Washington and Oregon — be good for the environment? The answer is a big yes, says a team of energy developers that proposes submerging power cables in the riverbed. The developers say the submerged cables could deliver “clean” energy that will be crucial for getting the most densely developed areas of Cascadia off fossil fuels. A proposal by renewable energy developer Sun2o Partners and transmission developer PowerBridge would insert the cables into the Columbia...
Kings of Fish: In Alaska, Salmon Means Life Each summer, billions of salmon return from the ocean to their ancestral spawning grounds, continuing the generations-old relationship between the fish, the land, and the people “Standing dead,” Don Honea tells me. He laughs—Native humor is very dry—because he is standing, clearly not dead, in the dim light of a Yukon River salmon smokeshack, holding up a five-foot cottonwood log that is indeed dead. It’s the only wood they cut to smoke their salmon catch, and the gnarled, musty aroma of generations of cottonwood fires seeps from the pores...
Portrait (artist unknown) of James Howard, 1814-1876. (Courtesy of the Howard Steamboat Museum) On October 14, 1876, James Howard was aboard the Louisville-Jeffersonville ferry John Shallcross. Headed home after a day of tending to business on the Kentucky side of the Ohio, James remained seated in his carriage during the crossing. Allegedly, the whistle of the ferry startled the horse, which backed the carriage forcefully against a gate that had not been properly latched, sending the buggy, horse and passenger into the river. Witnesses said that they saw Howard surface one time as he attempt...