Author Archives: Main Paddler
Campfires–where the camping life collects
Campfires – Campfires are a great way to bond with your fellow campers and paddling companions after a day of paddling. They provide a wonderful warm glow and as the day’s physical and emotional highs and lows sink in, a way they can be relived. They provide warmth on a cool night and enough … Continue reading
Google Earth goes deep in the Canyon–Grand Canyon
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/10/24/163499448/googles-street-view-goes-into-the-wild Perhaps we’ll start to get some previews of the bigger rivers to paddle. Cool.
Using Google Earth Along with USGS gauges
http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/index.php?m=stategage&w=kml Need a gauge location and use Google Earth? You can down load by state the USGS gauges from this site. It allows you to quickly find a gauge and check the conditions. Very cool indeed. Especially if you are on the go with a smart phone or tablet.
Interesting call for Water Conservation
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-tyranny-of-or.html?page=2 We all need to pressure politicians from your local office holders, all the way up the ladder to the President of the US, to protect and preserve the water supply.
Just Because you can’t see it…
Here in Dallas, TX we have a relatively new feature on the Trinity River; The Standing Wave Park. I was down there doing some Stream Team testing and saw two young men using the park although they only had one boat, so one at a time. I spoke with them briefly about the quality of … Continue reading
Keystone is not just a cheap beer
The Keystone pipeline project is something you should be aware of as a paddler. This pipeline is a project to run tar sands oil from Canada through the Midwest down to facilities in Texas for refining. http://www.alternet.org/environment/why-scientists-are-alarm-mode-over-keystone-xl-pipeline?akid=9551.14219.xr5uPr&rd=1&src=newsletter729731&t=18
Gauges and Rivers
It is so nice to have access to flow rates before you make that drive. I have found two things to be indispensible lately. Wonder maps and USGS subscriptions. Using wonder maps, it’s easy to find a gauge close by to your proposed trip. And with a subscription to the gauges you find getting up … Continue reading
Go to a Refuge this week – I am
More than a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt set aside a tiny bird rookery off the coast of Florida, Pelican Island, as the first national wildlife refuge. Since then the refuge system has grown to become one of our greatest treasures with refuges from the Caribbean to the Pacific, from Maine to Alaska. This week … Continue reading
Bill brings some attention to our disappearing Rivers
Bill Maher has posted a bit on his blog about the dire conditions of our nations rivers. http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/real-time-with-bill-maher-blog/2012/10/17/dry-me-a-river.html Glad to see it’s on someone’s radar beside my own.
Opportunity to help at Clean Up
River Legacy Park is located in North Arlington and its mission is environmental education at the River Legacy Living Science Center and conservation of 1300 acres of land at our park. I would like your help in finding volunteers who have experience in canoeing or kayaking to assist us in a river clean up this … Continue reading
