The U.S. Interior Department recently announced $1 million in funding toward removing the defunct Albright Dam as part of an effort to improve water quality and restore free-flowing waterways nationwide.
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Albright Dam Removal Part of National River Cleanup Effort
TAGS: Albright Dam American Rivers cheat river fish Friends of the Cheat River preservation West Virginia
Emory River System: Beauty and Biodiversity in Peril?
By Dr. Anna George, Tennessee Aquarium “There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.” On September 12, 1867, John Muir crossed the Emory River on his 1,000-mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico. He had set out…
TAGS: biodiversity Clinch River Emory River hydroelectric dams Obed River River preservation South Cumberland Plateau
