Rivers Unlimited

Founded in 1972

P.O. Box 20231
Cincinnati, OH 45220
Phone: 513.761.4003

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March 2010

Autumn 2009

  • Local and State News
  • Direct Action Heats Up
  • Adopt-a-Stream Update
  • FOGM, MillerCoors Tree Planting
  • 2009 Fremont Cup Recap
  • Upcoming Events

August 2009

  • Adopt-a-Stream's Big Summer
  • Scenic Rivers Update
  • Learn to Canoe with RU
  • The Fremont Cup Returns to the Great Miami River
  • Upcoming Events

Fall 2008

  • Ohio's Scenic River Program Hangs in the Balance
  • A Look at the Economics Behind Ohio's Scenic Rivers Program
  • Adopt-a-Stream Takes Off
  • 2nd Annual Fremont Cup
  • Southwest Ohio Stream Stewards' Conference
  • Public Comment on Environmental Issues
  • Stormwater Policy Innovation

Summer 2008

  • Gas Pipeline Threatens Ohio's Waters
  • From the President: It's Time to Reconnect with Our Rivers
  • Fremont Cup.  Paddlefest.
  • Kids' Ex-Stream Expo
  • Volunteer Spotlight
  • Managing Wastewater in Waterways

Winter 2008

  • Adopt-a-Stream Program Makes River Protection Personal
  • New Book Draws from Work of Ohio State University, Rivers Unlimited
  • Watershed Updates
  • Friends of the Great Miami Stay on Track
  • RU Volunteers' Photo of Little Miami Wins Award
  • RU Volunteers Receive "Ohio Watchdog of the Year" Award

Fall 2007

  • Threats to Streams Put the Spotlighnt on Permit Process
  • Water Quality to Decide Fate of Streams, Woodland
  • Bulldozer 4, Stream 0
  • Volunteer Spotlight
  • A Facelift for a Stream in the East Fork
  • Race Celebrates 125 Years of River Stewardship
  • The Man Behind 'The Cup"
  • Join Our Effort

Spring 2007

  • Aerial Photography Helps Stop Pollution on East Fork
  • President's Letter
  • Paddlefest: Putting the Ohio River Back on the Map
  • Freshwater Mussels
  • Volunteer Spotlight
  • Ohio's Mining Regulations Explained, Part 3

Winter 2007

  • Ohio's Mining Regulations Explained, Part 2
  • Little Miami Litigation
  • Agricultural Ditches
  • Oversight of Factory Farms
  • Floodplain Fills
  • Lower Regs Delayed for Ohio River

Autumn 2006

  • Wild and Scenic Rivers
  • Ohio River Swim
  • Lynne Cox Swims OH River to Protest Lower Water Quality Standards
  • Regulation of Mining Activities in and around Ohio's Rivers
  • Urban Water Quality and Rivers
  • Citizen Suits Allow Citizens to Act to Enforce Environmental Law
  • Growing Trees in Southwest Ohio
  • A View from Above

Spring 2006

  • New Standards Mean More Sewage Allowed in the Ohio River
  • OHEGIS Update Part I
  • OHEGIS Update Part II
  • Ohio Considers Drilling in State Parks
  • Sewage Dumping into Ohio's Waterways
  • Southwest Ohio Fishery
  • Environmental Scorecard 2005
  • Beaver Creek Watershed Update

Winter 2006

  • How to Destroy a River
  • Ash Borer Threat to Ohio's Rivers
  • Tiny Stream, Big Grant for Huff Run
  • Conneaut Creek Designated State Wild and Scenic River
  • Male Smallmouth Bass
  • Save the Ohio
  • Little Miami Preservation Milestone
  • Music Concert to Benefit Rivers
Spring 2005
  • Channelization Again! (Part 1 - Dual Channels)
  • Rivers Unlimited River Economics Luncheon Event
  • A Path Runs Along It
  • Ohio Loses Talented Organizer
  • Knox County Fighting Gravel Mining on Kokosing River
  • Mill Creek Restoration Project Receives River Economics Grant
  • Friends of the Great Miami Weather a Year of Change
  • Mad River Update
  • Mercury Pollution Study
Summer 2004
  • The Eastern Corridor Truckway, or 1-73/74, or Relocated U.S. 50
  • Bringing Nature Back to the Ditches
  • Using History to Protect the Great Miami
  • Your Senators & Representatives on the Environment
  • PaddleFest Cincinnati
  • Gravel Mining & Other Things
  • Friends of Minnow Creek Sue Commissioners
  • Victory for Sewage-in-Basement Victims
Winter 2004
  • A Wet Place to Spend Our Tax Money! Pork?
  • RU Unveils New Website
  • A Taste of River Economics Abroad
  • Local Update: Saving Minnow Creek
  • Channelization Destroys Fish & Wildlife
  • What's Missing in the Clean Water Act?
  • The Great Miami - An Ohio Scenic River?
Spring 2003
  • The Answer to Flooding
  • Eye on Rivers Unlimited
  • The Ohio River Pipeline: aka Marathon-Ashland
  • Local Updates
  • Management Change for "Areas and Preserves"
  • Our U.S. Senators, Your Representative
  • Rivers Unlimited's Actions in 2002
Winter 2002
  • Water Quality in Ohio
  • A Community Takes Action
  • A Look at Our Trustees
  • River Resource Economics Studies
  • Sabatoge!
  • Citizens Speak up to EPA
  • Local River Updates
  • Ohio Natural Heritage Rivers System
  • Non-Environmental Governance
  • NANFA
  • Rivers Unlimited's Membership Form
Fall 2002
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Reform at Last?
  • Ohio River Visions
  • Eye on Rivers
  • Ohio EPA Survey
  • Local River Updates
  • RU's Believe It or Not!
  • Thanks, Mike
  • Tier III and Ohio EPA
  • RU Membership Form
  • So You're a River Organization?
Summer 2001
  • Can Improving Your River Pay Off More Than It Costs? Probably!
  • In Memoriam: Kent Kroonemeyer
  • Bits & Pieces
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • Ohio's Rivers to Join March to State's Bicentennial
  • Greenfields: Issue 1 Again
  • Ohio EPA Report Card
  • Local River Updates
  • SWCD Watershed Projects Use Ditch Legislation to Form
  • A Look At Our Trustees
December 1999 Special Edition
  • Outstanding Economic Opportunities with Ohio's Rivers
  • Resource Economics
  • Economic Interests in Rivers
  • How the Ohio Wild & Scenic System Helps
  • Ohio's Degraded Rivers
  • Economics and the State System
  • Recommendation: Recognize Economic Potential as a Criterion for Designation
  • Recommendation: Commission Resource Economics Studies
  • Facts on Rivers and Water Quality
  • Recommendation: Include these Rivers as Candidates
Summer 1999
  • Friends of the Great Miami
  • Rivers Quarterly Wins Award
  • Stream of Thought
  • SB 20: Historically Challenged Watercourses
  • Tulloch Rule Redefined
  • Antidegredation
  • I Didn't Know the River Was Loaded!
  • Water Resources Council Sticks with Inadequate Plan
  • Clean Water for Southern Ohio, too!!
  • Membership Form
Fall 1997
  • Court Strikes Down Antidegradation Law
  • Stream of Thought
  • Concentrated Animal Waste Threatens Creeks
  • Ohio Greenways Conference a Huge Success
  • ODH Issues Fish Consumption Advisories
  • Local Rivers Update
  • Ohio EPA Proposed New Rules Under the GLI
  • State Budget Assists Twenty in 2000 Campaign
  • RU Volunteer Program
Fall 1996
  • Rivers Unlimited Launches New Campaign: Twenty in 2000
  • Stream of Thought
  • Rivers Unlimited Board of Trustees
  • Cleanup Effort on Monday Creek Underway
  • Local Rivers Update
  • Ohio Greenways: the First Three Months
  • Great Lakes Initiative Update
  • Rivers Unlimited Membership Update
  • Rivers Unlimited Membership Form

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