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Rios Libres: Moving Like a Feather
We've just received some fresh correspondence from the Rios Libres team with their latest progress. Their first post (featured on TCL Monday, March 8) got the journey started. Today's post shares a...
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Paddle Georgia Celebrates the South’s Rivers
Georgia River Network is a long-time recipient of Patagonia's Environmental Grant support that has been working for years to ensure the health of their watersheds. Over the years, they've increased...
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Rios Libres: The Voice of the Ice
Team Rios Libres is back with an update from the Neff Glacier, at the headwaters of the Río Baker. The team’s first two reports can be found here (1, 2). With the Neff at their backs, the team...
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Rios Libres: The Places In Between
Team Rios Libres has completed their journey through Patagonia, studying the potential impacts of 5 proposed damns on two of the region's wildest and most healthy rivers. Two of the dams are proposed...
View ArticleRios Libres: Video Blogs 2 & 3 plus Next Steps
[Video: “Rios Libres Video Blog 2 with Timmy O’Neill – Rio Baker Portage” by Rio Libres] When last we heard from team Rios Libres, Craig Childs summed up their journey to Patagonia in a beautiful post...
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Rios Libres: In the Shadow of Glen Canyon Dam, plus “Power in the Pristine”...
6170 miles. This is the distance between Flagstaff, Arizona and Puerto Bertrand, Chile – the town closest to the source of the Rio Baker. This creates a formidable gap (the equivalent of driving from...
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Dirtbag Diaires: Buckle Down – The Year of Big Ideas 2011
What are your goals for 2011? If you're still looking for ideas, today's Dirtbag Diaries has more than a few from listeners like you. James Q Martin has an incredible, carefree life. For the last, five...
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Chilean Government Approves Dam Project Despite Public Opposition
The Patagonian region of southern Chile is considered one of the world's last, great wildernesses, dubbed an "eco-gem" for its rare fauna, ice-sculptured fjords and almost total absence of industrial...
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Journey Through a Scroll Painting
by Dave Campbell From standing guard over endangered sea-turtle eggs, to mapping oceanic pollution and starting one of the West's most successful wilderness protection organizations, our Environmental...
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The Labyrinth – an excerpt from Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011
From The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011 – an excerpt from “The Labyrinth,” a story about surviving Costa Rican heartbreak and whitewater by Bridget Crocker, Patagonia copy writer. Bridget and fellow...
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Tools for Dismantling Pipelines
A few months ago, I attended the book launch of Patagonia’s Tools for Grassroots Activists at Patagonia SoHo in New York City. The book launch fired me up and primed me to dig into the tools of the...
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Feeling the River All Around
River snorkeling’s miserable beauty. If they’re even a little bit lucky, a river snorkeler’s first swim offers voyeuristic glimpses of life beneath the surface—salmon fry flickering in a log jam, trout...
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Feeling the River All Around
River snorkeling’s miserable beauty. If they’re even a little bit lucky, a river snorkeler’s first swim offers voyeuristic glimpses of life beneath the surface—salmon fry flickering in a log jam, trout...
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When a River Burns
Of forests, fire and fish. It was early July 2018 and the cottonwoods along the Strawberry River in northeastern Utah were charred skeletons. We drove through them in silence, noting not just the trees...
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When a River Burns
Of forests, fire and fish. It was early July 2018 and the cottonwoods along the Strawberry River in northeastern Utah were charred skeletons. We drove through them in silence, noting not just the trees...
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It’s All Home Water: The Crash of Florida’s Tarpon Capitol
A Small Florida Town Was Once Host to the World’s Largest Tarpon. What Happened? The tarpon is one of the most magnificent animals on the planet. I say this subjectively, of course. I am an angler. But...
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It’s All Home Water: The Crash of Florida’s Tarpon Capitol
A Small Florida Town Was Once Host to the World’s Largest Tarpon. What Happened? The tarpon is one of the most magnificent animals on the planet. I say this subjectively, of course. I am an angler. But...
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The Darkest Web
Protecting the Gulf of Mexico from illegal fishing. We wear bulky bulletproof flak jackets, and there are shouldered semi-automatic carbines and holstered 9mm pistols. I am not comfortable with any of...
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The Darkest Web
Protecting the Gulf of Mexico from illegal fishing. We wear bulky bulletproof flak jackets, and there are shouldered semi-automatic carbines and holstered 9mm pistols. I am not comfortable with any of...
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Next to the River
For 16-year-old Bosnian Ali Sarajlić, living without the free-flowing Neretvica River is unimaginable. That’s why he has joined, and in many ways led, the continuing fight against damming it. “Rivers...
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