Officials say a backcountry dam has reached the end of its life, but locals say the state is treating a wild, undeveloped ...

The barriers have attracted concerns over disruption to ecosystems – but dismantling them can create new problems ...

Local and state officials gathered Thursday where the Larkin Dam had once restricted the Parker River to celebrate its ...

For about 200 years the Ashland Mill Dam, about a half-hour north of Richmond, blocked many fish from moving through the ...

The North Brenton Brook flows freely into the Castleton River, but the small stream did not always look the way it does today ...

I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on ...

The first time river guide Bart Baldwin ever dipped a paddle into whitewater, he was rafting Oregon’s Upper Klamath River. “It spoiled me,” recalls Baldwin, who grew up near the river. That initial ...

Almost a quarter of all freshwater species are threatened with extinction. The removal of human-made barriers from rivers, ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources plans to remove the Roberts Lake Dam in Cheboygan County in August and replace ...

Svette told 21 News that the work could not be finished any sooner due to too much high water throughout the springtime.

Dams disrupt sediment and hydrologic connectivity, fragmenting river ecosystems and altering geomorphic and ecological processes. In response, dam removals have increased to restore longitudinal ...