Needless to say, these activities have brought crisis to species that depend on rivers, from fish to birds to riparian plants. Passed in 1968, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act is a federal law ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the National Wild and Scenic River Act, which protects and preserves the country's most prized waterways. In honor of the occasion, we've rounded up can't ...

The National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (NWSRA) currently designates only 76 miles of one river, the Cache La Poudre, within the State of Colorado. That is less than one-tenth of 1 percent of Colorado ...

This “wild and scenic” section of the famous Rio Grande is a 196-mile stretch of the river that travels east from the Mexican border into Texas and winds through some of the more remote vistas in the ...

Yet despite the Southwest's dizzying number of critical waterways, Utah has no wild and scenic rivers, Arizona has two, Colorado has only one, and New Mexico's Gila Headwaters rivers remain ...