Elizabeth Riggs 07/13/2012 Dams Aaaand, we’re off! First portage of many to be improved People are talking and writing about the newly completed portage on the Huron River! The RiverUp! initiative proudly announces the… Read More »
Elizabeth Riggs 05/07/2012 Dams Portland-envy Grows River Rally 2012 is underway in Portland, Oregon. I’m here with Laura, Kris, Pam and Jason and 600 members of… Read More »
Laura Rubin 01/25/2012 Dams Setting Legal Lake Levels Recently, I went to Washtenaw County Circuit Court about a lake level for Portage and Base (aka Baseline) Lakes in… Read More »
Elizabeth Riggs 11/21/2011 Dams Finding a Better Way A big part of building the Huron River Water Trail means making the portages around dams safer and easier for… Read More »
Ric Lawson 11/07/2011 Dams Get with the Flow I just recently finished the final editing on 6 plans to address impairments to the watershed in Middle Huron Partners… Read More »
Ric Lawson 09/08/2011 Dams Interning with HRWC: A “Dam” Good Time I was a lucky duck to intern every Friday this summer at HRWC. My role: continue work on HRWC’s Dam… Read More »
Elizabeth Riggs 04/21/2011 Dams Water Trail Team Surveys Portages Grey, rainy weather provided the backdrop to site visits that HRWC staff made this week to the canoe portages at… Read More »
Elizabeth Riggs 03/29/2011 Cleanups The Start of Something Big In the summer, HRWC will launch a new project called RiverUp! with the Wolfpack, an action-oriented group of conservation-minded leaders… Read More »
Kris Olsson 02/01/2011 Dams Crazy Dam Behavior Water levels on the Huron River in Ann Arbor (see graph) began fluctuating wildly late last Saturday (1/22), according to a… Read More »
Elizabeth Riggs 08/17/2010 Dams HRWC pulls together river groups for dam talks With funding from River Network, I traveled around Michigan this summer talking with the river and conservation community about the… Read More »
Laura Rubin 06/14/2010 Dams What’s Causing Those Crazy River Fluctuations in Ann Arbor? As many of you know, the USGS stream gauge at Wall Street in Ann Arbor has been showing some alarming… Read More »
Laura Rubin 06/10/2010 Dams Restoring a River in Grand Rapids This week Michigan Public Radio ran a story on efforts in Grand Rapids to restore the Grand River in downtown. … Read More »