From its headwaters in Transylvania County, the French Broad River flows freely for 75 miles before hitting the 122-year-old Craggy Dam in Woodfin. Environmentalists and outdoorspeople have long ...

Craggy Dam blocks aquatic migration, traps sediment and elevates water temperatures, resulting in significant disruption to ...

Mountain Valleys Conservation Resource and Development is seeking to remove the Capitola Dam, a Marshall hydroelectric dam on ...

An online briefing will be held March 11 to discuss the future of Craggy Dam on the French Broad River in Woodfin.

The dam is more than 100 years old and hasn’t produced hydropower in nearly two decades. Officials say removing it will reconnect almost 70 miles of river.

Eliminating obsolete or unsafe dams could help bolster community safety amid climate-induced weather extremes, watershed experts are recommending. Storms and floods have intensified in both frequency ...

The Strait of Juan de Fuca is home to 74 Southern Resident orcas. They are an iconic symbol for the region. Visitors go out in droves hoping to see one. But beneath the surface, their survival is at ...

There are at least 140 dams in the Winooski River watershed, according to Michele Braun, executive director of the Friends of the Winooski River. Three of those dams help with flood control. Fifteen ...

"I could think of better things to do with $4,000,000 than to take out a dam that really doesn't make a difference," Shaffer ...

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