Rivers & Habitat

Clean water and healthy riparian habitat are fundamental to all we love about rivers. Whether you enjoy watching your kids swim, fishing for trout, or knowing your drinking water is safe, you need clean water. Through the Rivers and Habitat Program, we help people:

• Learn about practices, strategies, and laws for protecting water quality and habitat;
• Decide how best to adapt them to their situation; and
• Use these tools to protect and restore local streams and lakes.

We also demystify laws like the Clean Water Act so that citizens can be effective voices for clean, healthy lakes, streams and wetlands.

Learn more about our strategic approach to provide

Rich Habitat for a Diversity of Fish, Birds and Wildlife - Strategies, Outcomes & Benchmarks

Read about our collective efforts on behalf of rivers everywhere in

The Way Forward: Action Plan for 2010-2015

Stories & Alerts

Citizens speak out to protect uses in Kentucky streams

Kentucky Waterways Alliance and local residents give voices -- and protection -- to trout in headwater streams.

All Stories & Alerts

Contact Information

Gayle Killam
Habitat Program Deputy Director
(503) 542-8387

Merritt Frey
Habitat Program Director
(801) 486-1224