Rivers are Good for the Soul
2018 will be my 50th year boating. I started guiding in 1968 on the Stanislaus River in California. My father made a trip down the Grand Canyon with ...
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The Stuff of Campfire Fables
If I had known about river running and being a guide at the same time I learned about skiing and being a ski instructor, I’d probably be the...
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Wild and Scenic Rivers: Our Moment is Now
In my foreword to Tim Palmer’s wonderful new book, Wild and Scenic Rivers: An American Legacy (Oregon State University Press 2017), I wrote about...
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Each summer one of the highlights for me is to canoe on the Wild and Scenic Rivers in Oregon. My time on these rivers gives me a sensory and spiritual...
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It was 1985 and I’d been living in the cold rocky mountains when I got an invite to apply for a job in California for a river company. My first...
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I remember when I first got a kayak here in Spokane. I remember shivering in an empty parking lot waiting with anticipation as each passing car gave me hope for...
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Well what I can remember when going to the lakes or rivers, which were very fun memories. Ones which makes every child and adult happy. But now the water runs...
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Rivers give life especially here in the Pacific Northwest. Native Americans have been sustained for centuries by our harvest of the salmon that must have rivers to come back to...
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