“You know how they say, ‘You can’t love what you don’t know?’ Well, this is why we need to reach out to people who don’t know what the deal with the river is. Reaching out with the Local Natives is a fantastic way into thousands of people’s hearts,” says Gaby Gonzalez, Environmental Education Coordinator at… Read more »
Posts By: Lynne Bairstow
Spring & Early Summer in the Delta
Spring and early summer are exciting times in the delta, not only in terms of increasing the restoration activities but also in terms of the natural cycles in the delta. Why is our replanting project so vital? The absence of water in the Colorado River Delta has put the natural cycles of planting and growth at… Read more »
Lower Colorado tops list of endangered rivers
On April 11, the nonprofit American Rivers released its annual report on the most endangered rivers in the U.S., and topping the list for 2017 was the lower Colorado River. It was deemed the most threatened based on the following criteria: the significance of the river to human and natural communities, the magnitude of the threat to… Read more »
What can a river teach us?
Sonoran Institute’s education programs on the banks of two important binational rivers are making huge impacts in the classroom From the Sonoran Institute Blog The sun is just rising through their school bus windows, but these fourth graders aren’t going to school. Instead, they are doing something some of them have never done before; they’re… Read more »
WHAT TO DO IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Mark Tercek — president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, a #RaisetheRiver coalition partner — outlines thoughts on how environmentalists should proceed during this unprecedented time of change and restates the core principals of their organization. Bottom line? “We just need to get to work.” Read the full story on The Nature Conservancy Blog.