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What’s up with the ACA and other water sports enthusiast organizations?
Across the nation more and more paddlers are taking to our countries rivers, lakes, creeks and streams looking for everything from excitement, to relaxation, fishing to picture taking, a float to a workout on the water. We talk about PFDs and hypothermia to keep boaters safe. We offer classes in first aid and wilderness training … Continue reading
Why do so many national organizations involved in water related recreational activities focus so much on the tools of recreation and not on the water?
There are conferences on water safety where speakers and presentations are made about these safety features or that technique, but so little if any conversation takes place about how to improve water quality. Some organizations focus only on flows. Some focus only on competition. Some on selling their training and brand to new paddlers, but … Continue reading
Why do so many national organizations involved water related recreational activities focus so much on the tools of recreation and not on the water?
There are conferences on water safety where speakers and presentations are made about these safety features or that technique, but so little if any conversation takes place about how to improve water quality. Some organizations focus only on flows. Some focus only on competition. Some on selling their training and brand to new paddlers, but … 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.
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.
Paddle for a reason?
Do you really need a reason to go for a paddle? Well it could be just the right therapy for you. Stress of the urban life can require you to just chill out with a little paddle. Try and squeeze in a 1/2 hr. to 45 minute of solitude; just you and the boat and … Continue reading
We don’t eat bad food, so why…?
would we want to paddle in polluted water. While the science of water bourn illness is not completely exact, should you actively promote others to paddle in water we know is unsafe base on EPA numbers? This is the issue I am having with some members of the Dallas paddling community. There is NO question … Continue reading
Looking forward to Caddoween
The Dallas Down River Club will be out at Caddo this Oct 26 – 28th celebrating Halloween in style. Look up details on MeetUp groups or on the DDRC home page – http://down-river.com
