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Peter Skidmore @restoringrivers

passion for protecting and restoring healthy rivers. no better day than one on a healthy river in a wild place. tweets are my own.

Joined February 2013
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.@SteveDaines: Please support Montanans and the Montana Headwaters Legacy Act! Protect our rivers as a key economic driver and source of happiness for Montanans! #montanarivers #mtheadwaterslegacyact
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Taking a Learning Journey Down a River in Recovery #riverrestoration #coloradoriver #tamarisk waltonfamilyfoundation.org/s…

Taking a Learning Journey Down a River in Recovery

This spring, I paddled the Dolores River. Here’s what I discovered about how habitat restoration efforts are impacting this Colorado River tributary

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Historic Yellowstone flooding brings renewal despite destruction. #messyrivers #healthyrivers #yellowstoneriver #restoringrivers nationalgeographic.com/envir… via @NatGeo

Historic Yellowstone flooding brings renewal despite destruction

Flooding helps seed majestic cottonwood trees and favors native trout. High water allows them to escape to calmer side channels, where they can spawn.

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#Floodplains are #naturalinfrastructure. Flooding of floodplains is always a matter of when, not if. Let floodplains be floodplains - its a win win. How one of the nation's deadliest floods changed Rapid City, South Dakota wbur.fm/3NEKhmv via @hereandnow
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Freedom space for #healthyrivers provides #naturalinfrastrucure and resilience to #climatechange waltonfamilyfoundation.org/s…

Giving Rivers the “Freedom Space” to Heal Themselves and Protect Against Climate Change

Investments in natural infrastructure improve river health and help us become more climate resilient

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#Riverscapes as #naturalinfrastructure - meeting the challenges of climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration #riverrestoration #beavers sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Even Colorado's Largest Wildfire Was No Match For Beavers kunc.org/environment/2021-09… #naturalinfrastructure #riverrestoration

Even Colorado's Largest Wildfire Was No Match For Beavers

Deep in the Cameron Peak burn scar, nestled among charred hills, there’s an oasis of green — an idyllic patch of trickling streams that wind through a lush grass field. Apart from a few scorched...

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How Mapping Beaver Wetlands Can Chart a Path to a Better Water Future waltonfamilyfoundation.org/s…

How Mapping Beaver Wetlands Can Chart a Path to a Better Water Future

First-of-its kind project will use machine learning and remote sensing to track beaver wetland changes in the Colorado River Basin

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Peter Skidmore retweeted
Nicole Lampe@nicole_amber
23 Nov 2021
Incredible story by @aaronscottOPB on the way beaver ponds and wetlands stop or slow fires and filter pollution. Features @BeaverCoalition and @EmilyFairfax. watch.opb.org/video/beavers-…
Burnt landscape with a strip of green where beavers had spread water.

ALT Burnt landscape with a strip of green where beavers had spread water.

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A Wild Western River Gets Some Good News #healthyrivers #EscalanteRiver #ColoradooRiver waltonfamilyfoundation.org/s…

A Wild Western River Gets Some Good News

A decision to restore the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to its original size protects a remote, iconic river in the heart of Utah

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Great news for the #EscalanteRiver and #healthyrivers in the #coloradoriver basin. President Biden Restores Protections for Three National Monuments. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
Spring flows bring new life to #ColoradoRiver communities and habitat in Mexico waltonfamilyfoundation.org/s…

New ‘Pulse Flow’ Raises the Colorado River in Mexico

From May to October, a surge of water is replenishing the Colorado River Delta

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Jennifer Pitt@JnPitt
25 Jun 2021
Full moon, high tide, Minute 323 environmental water, and the #CORiver meets the sea again in 2021! #birdsneedwater #peopleneedrivers
Sonoran Institute@sonoraninst
25 Jun 2021
💦Our team and the UABC Institute of Engineering have just officially noted the connection of water from the Colorado River with the sea in the Upper Gulf of California‼ #ColoradoRiverDelta
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Great partnering with @rivernetwork on the #YampaRiver, creating a model for managing #healthyrivers. rivernetwork.org/aligning-wi…

Aligning with Agriculture for Multiple Benefits on All 300 Miles of the Yampa

How do you support river health and engage irrigators along 300 plus miles of river and with nearly 250 individually owned diversion structures? It’s tough, but rewarding, and exactly what River...

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So rewarding to see our @RaiseRiver partners' work in the Colorado River Delta highlighted: Transnational Restoration Projects Serve as Blueprint for Global Action - Society for Ecological Restoration ser.org/news/570801/Transnat…

Society for Ecological Restoration

The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) advances restoration science, practice and policy to re-establish an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture.

ser.org
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In the Colorado River Delta, Local Residents Revive Long-Dry Wetlands waltonfamilyfoundation.org/s…

In the Colorado River Delta, Local Residents Revive Long-Dry Wetlands

Community members restoring native habitat are rebuilding pride in their natural environment

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Great to see #rivers front and center in this election! #respecttherivers
A Journey of Rediscovery Down a Remote, Recovering River waltonfamilyfoundation.org/s… #riverrestoration #messyrivers #healthyrivers

A Journey of Rediscovery Down a Remote, Recovering River

Peter Skidmore rafts down the Escalante, a wild river returning to health

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#healthyrivers make for big hatches of #caddis, happy fish, and happy fisherman
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#flyfish
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