Our rivers have a multitude of threats and challenges: polluted runoff from farms and city streets, degraded banks from sloppy development and wallowing cattle, unsightly aesthetics at urban industrial sites, and ecologically damaging small dams.
Where to start? Can we ever finish? As long as there is human activity in our around rivers, there will be a need to restore rivers. Our damage to rivers is not inevitable, however, and the River Alliance carefully selects its on-the-ground projects and areas of emphasis as we work to restore Wisconsin’s rivers.
We have a long and illustrious history in restoring rivers through small dam removal. Our newest emphasis is to restore urban rivers, and to re-energize the public’s attention to the state’s “mother river,” the Wisconsin.
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