Follow Your Current: Rivers, Resilience, and When to Swim Upstream

With Matthew Best & David Stormer of Riverkeeper

Jessica Morgenthal travels the long arc of rivers — from the chaotic, sediment-laden flows of an early Earth to the great waterways that built civilization, to the modern story of dams, levees, and recovery. To navigate these waters, she's joined by two river champions from Riverkeeper, the organization that helped bring the Hudson River back from the dead: Matthew Best, a fish biologist whose love of migratory species reveals rivers as living circulatory systems, and David Stormer, Riverkeeper's Habitat Restoration Director, who is literally returning rivers to the courses they've always sought. Together they offer a vision of a river that remembers her path — and a resilience practice for the parts of us that remember ours.