The River Radius Podcast

Do you ever wonder if bots are being used to acquire river permits during the annual cancellation lotteries each year? So do we. So we built a bot to see if it works to secure permits. And we tried talking with rec dot gov to get their input. Check out this episode for a tour of bots, permits, bureaucracy and access to public rivers. 

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2021 EPISODE ABOUT RIVER PERMITS
 

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Hayden Blackford

American Whitewater
Kevin Colburn
River Permit Survey Results Preview
Rivers Requiring Permits List

Allocating Recreation with Fairness at the Forefront

Reserve Act

Rec Dot Gov
Are Bots Reserving all the Popular Locations?

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The Tijuana Rivers courses through the City of Tijuana Mexico where 2 million people live.  Several hundred thousand homes in Tijuana are not connected to the city sewage system and this leads to significant pollution of the Tijuana River.  And because the city of Tijuana butts right up to the US Mexico border, the path of the river sewage and the responsibility for managing is not always clear.  This episode goes into Tijuana to learn more about why the pollution exists, where it comes from and the status of various infrastructure tools that manage the pollution. 

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Ramon Chairez
Un Mar de Colores
 

GUESTS

Hernando Duran
Tijuana Verde en Espanol
Tijuana Verde in English

Waylon Matson
4 Walls International

Rosario Jacqueline Moreno

Chris Helmer
City of Imperial Beach

IBWC Wastewater Treatment Plant

Tijuana River

Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve 

Tijuana, Mexico

San Diego / Tijuana Metro Area

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This episode is on site where a beautiful desert mountain river flows through an estuary and into the Pacific Ocean. Before the Tijuana River meets the ocean, it navigates through a dense urban border region with 5 million people. The outcome is a river that is carrying toxic sewage and pollution to the ocean, closing beaches and creating illness in the river and beach communities. This is the first episode in a series about this beautiful place, the epic pollution, and the incredible people who are engaged in the work to clean up this river and ocean. 

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Ramon Chairez

Dr Paula Granados

Dr Kimberly Dickson
Dr Matthew Dickson

Tijuana River

Imperial Beach Closed

Saturn Boulevard Hot Spot

Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve 

Tijuana, Mexico

San Diego / Tijuana Metro Area

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River runners became paramount for river rescue in many parts of Appalachia when Hurricane Helene inflated the rivers to record levels. People were stranded in buildings, bridges blew out, and houses were swept downriver. This live episode at the America Outdoors Conference hosts 3 river runners who immediately engaged in the rescue of people stranded by the floods, and, the rescue of the rivers from their own floods. They tell the stories of their work beginning at daybreak on day 1 of Hurricane Helene. 

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Korey Hampton
Mitch Hampton
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Steven Foy
Nantahala Outdoor Center

RELEVANT LINKS AND CONTENT

USA Today articles about Korey and Mitch running rescues
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Heroes & heartbreak: 36 hours of hell during Helene's historic floods

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From rescue to recovery:The grim task in flood ravaged WNC

New York Times, print and podcast story about Mr Tipton
NY Times
For hours he clung to a tree. But none came.
The Daily Podcast (NY Times)

60 Minutes: Families in WNC rebuild in wake of Helene: "This is home"

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Part 1, Hurricane Helene in Appalachia, The Science

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In September of 2024 when Hurricane Helene arrived in the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina, it landed where the ground and rivers were already saturated and swollen with rain. The result was “the storm of record” taking out thousands of bridges, sending thousands of landslides down the mountains and taking human life. This episode hosts the National Weather Service and the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center to explore the storm and the river reaction, and then Dr Phillip Prince goes deep in describing landslides and debris flows and their impact. 

GUESTS

Trisha Palmer
National Weather Service 
Greenville Spartanburg, South Carolina

Matt Wilson
Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center
Slidell, Louisiana 

Dr Phillip Prince
Geo Models You Tube Channel

RELEVANT LINKS AND CONTENT

Read:  Hurricane Helene

Video:  French Broad River Flooding 2024 - Hurricane Helene in Woodfin, NC

Article:  Helene deals billions in damage to infrastructure

Article:  Reflections on loss and opportunity in flood ravaged Western North Carolina

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Dr Len Necefer opens up 2025 for The River Radius. Len is the mind and perspective I wanted to welcome me and you both into this 6th season of The River Radius. We talk through the relationship of rivers and elections, of books for this year, the work and impact of Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and other river and life layers. Len is the founder of Natives Outdoors, the Sonoran Avalanche Center, runs rivers, is articulate and intelligently humorous. This is the 2nd episode with Dr Len Necefer and both are some of my favorites. 

1ST EPISODE: Part 1, Dr Len Necefer, Living in the Soup
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Dr Len Necefer website
Natives Outdoors
Outside TV: Running Dry
Dr Len Necefer personal IG account 
Sonoran Avalanche Center IG account 

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Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs
Honold Foundation
 

BOOKS
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
The NativesOutdoors reading list for the outdoor industry

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To move from 2024 into 2025, we have one guest in two episodes for you. Our guest is Dr Len Necefer. This is the first episode. We talk through life wrapped in intellect and self facing humor, 6th grade reading levels, native art and the modern retail market, an upriver bike ride, and river runs at the northern most reaches of the North American continent. Len is the “star” of his Outside TV show where he is riding his bike up the Colorado River from Mexico to Colorado.  He is the founder of Natives Outdoors. He served the Obama Administration in the Dept of Energy. And Len is part of the founding crew of the Sonoran Avalanche Center. Len and I sat on top of a small mountain, on a park bench looking down on the deep desert river and ski town of Tucson, Arizona on a Sunday morning in the end of November to laugh and learn, and talk life and rivers. 

GUEST
Dr Len Necefer website
Natives Outdoors
Outside TV: Running Dry
Dr Len Necefer personal IG account 
Sonoran Avalanche Center IG account 

RELEVANT LINKS
Bogs in collaboration with Natives Outdoors
Honold Foundation
Returning Rapids 
Returning Rapids of Cataract 2021
Autopsy of a Post Reservoir River

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Do rivers have rights? Should they have a set of rights that guide how they are used? In September of this year, 2024, the Biobio River in Chile was assigned a Declaration of Rights. This non binding document allows for work to be done towards making the Declaration influential and even binding at a later date. We speak with International Rivers and Malen Lebu in Chile to understand this more. 

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Maranon River, Peru, Declaration of Rights
 

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Darby McAdams holds many places in the river world: kayaker, film maker & instructor of both kayaking and film work for young paddlers. In November of 2024 her new film NEAR THE RIVER went public. In this episode Darby moves through her kayak path, her film path and talks about NEAR THE RIVER and its story about the people of the Zambezi River in Africa. 

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NRS Dirtbag Diaries:  “Darby McAdams & the Evolution of Passion” by Chandra Brown

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Georgia has rivers and streams running from the mountain country of the Southern Appalachians to the Gulf of Mexico, totaling about 70,000 total miles of waterways.  Whitewater and flatwater.  Clear water and Black water.  And a long history of publicly accessible rivers and streams.  That access is being debated by the State of Georgia and bills have been proposed that would curtail access for the public.  We talk with Georgia Rivers to learn more about this topic and about the public meeting and comment process. 

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Freedom to Float

Joe Cook

PUBLIC MEETING
Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 9 a.m. in Newnan Donald W. Nixon Centre for Performing and Visual Arts in Newnan, GA.

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Flint River, Georgia, Fall 2024

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