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DID YOU KNOW... Less than 1/2 of 1% of our rivers are protected under the National Wild Scenic Rivers System. Latest News (October 15, 2020) The U.S. Forest Service has released a Draft Management Plan for the Middle Fork Snoqualmie and Pratt Rivers (Washington). (October 13, 2020) Legislation has been introduced to designate the Little Manatee River in Florida as a wild scenic river. (July 30, 2020) River Network has again worked with the Forest Service to provide local organizations with funding for stewardship work on wild scenic rivers. To see this year’s recipients, please visit River Network's web site. A National System In the past 50 years, we have learned all too slowly, I think to prize and protect God's precious gifts. Because we have, our own children and grandchildren will come to know and come to love the great forests and the wild rivers that we have protected and left to them . . . An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development. President Lyndon Johnson on signing the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, October 2, 1968.[Note: This is an historical citation, not an endorsement of religion. These are the historic remarks made by a U.S. President.] + FIND OUT MORE About the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act The country changed in the 1960s, including our treatment of the environment, leading to the Wilderness, Clean Air, Clean Water and National Environmental Policy Acts and the Wild Scenic Rivers Act. + FIND OUT MORE Slides, in order: Westfield River (Massachusetts), Au Sable River (Michigan), Black River (Michigan), Crooked River (Oregon), Delta River (Alaska), John Day River (Oregon), Namekagon River (Wisconsin), Ontonagon River (Michigan), Rio Grande (New Mexico), Rio Icacos (Puerto Rico), Wekiva River (Rock Springs Run - Florida), Wolf Creek (Wyoming). All slide photos by Tim Palmer. Mule Deer Chuck Grace Bartlett.

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