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Give a Dam: New Video from Rios Libres + Take Action to Protect Patagonia’s Wild Rivers

Give a Dam: New Video from Rios Libres + Take Action to Protect Patagonia’s Wild Rivers

Chris Kassar taking the time to say a prayer at the proposed dam site of the Baker River. Patagonia, Chile. Photo: James Q Martin by Chris Kassar via The Cleanest Line Every time I kneel down next to a river – even if just for a moment – I swear I can hear it speak to me. I know this probably sounds crazy, but I also know I’m not the only one who hears wise murmurs rising from the ripples...

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Friday Faves: Mashups, Free-Flowing Rivers, Dancing, Wild Places + Really Good Friends

Friday Faves: Mashups, Free-Flowing Rivers, Dancing, Wild Places + Really Good Friends

We’ve been shooting out and catching a lot of love this week, so we’re going to go ahead and shout it out loud… Anna Brones. You get big high fives for quite a few reasons this week, but especially for becoming my go-to music maven, especially for mashups like this, and this… and this. Jenny Nichols. Umm… Wild Love is hitting full steam because of you, hot stuff....

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Friday Faves: Do Trust in the Things You Love

Friday Faves: Do Trust in the Things You Love

“If I can only scrape a living, at least it will be a living worth scraping.” I was fortunate to meet Mickey Smith this spring when he traveled to 5Point Film Festival with his beautiful film Darkside of the Lens. He’s charming, humble, creative and passionate. And amazingly forgiving. Several of us — you know who you are — decided to get rowdy until 5 a.m. Mickey, jet-lagged and...

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Friday Faves: Daydreaming Courtesy a Weekend Cabin and Murmuration

Friday Faves: Daydreaming Courtesy a Weekend Cabin and Murmuration

Nothing quite like a shot of Scandinavia to get the wanderlust pumping… it just took one look at the Adventure Journal’s Weekend Cabin post this week to have me dreaming of wool sweaters, a raging fire and hot Glögg nestled in my palms. Luckily, this cold, crisp Portland weather is the perfect setting to allow me to stoke my daydream along with the fire. That is until I can make...

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Friday Faves Double Edition: BOOM! Giving a Dam For Salmon and Free-Flowing Rivers

Friday Faves Double Edition: BOOM! Giving a Dam For Salmon and Free-Flowing Rivers

I’ve never been one for blowing stuff up, but I can’t begin to describe the excited, joyful feeling I have knowing that this hunk of concrete is going to be blown to smithereens on October 26. So what is this big concrete wall? That’s Condit Dam. It’s been blocking the flow of the White Salmon River and its salmon for more than 100 years. A couple of weeks ago, I posted...

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Friday Faves: Celebrating the Little (and Huge) Wins

Friday Faves: Celebrating the Little (and Huge) Wins

“This is just breathtaking for me. This is not only an historic moment, but it’s going to lead to historic moments elsewhere across the country.” —Michael Connor, commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on removing two dams on the Elwha River. I took the leap into my first nonprofit gig with a salmon group in Bellingham, Washington. After getting dirty at a few work parties,...

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