The Wild and Scenic Rivers System, created by Congress in 1968, is meant to preserve a river’s qualities that caused it to receive designation. “Designation neither prohibits development nor gives the ...
Keeping the Crystal River free-flowing with no dams and preserving its scenic qualities, ecosystems and water rights for agriculture were values that nearly all the attendees of a Thursday community ...
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series about the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, including the eight rivers so designated in Arkansas. Twin brothers John and Frank Craighead, who grew up ...
A co-published blog by American Rivers and the Getches-Wilkinson Center at Colorado Law. The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 has been the preeminent tool to protect free-flowing rivers in the ...