Mission
The mission of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Coalition is to protect and defend existing and potential Wild and Scenic Rivers and broaden the movement for their conservation by raising awareness about their value.
Goals
- Capacity: Build greater capacity for river organizations to be more effective advocating for Wild and Scenic protections.
- Advocacy: Protect and defend designated and potential Wild and Scenic Rivers and support the non-profit and agency river professionals who steward them.
- Communications: Improve communications amongst river organizations and with the public about the value of Wild and Scenic Rivers.
Organizational Members
Across the country, small and large river organizations do great work to protect the Wild and Scenic River System and expand it. In coalition, we are a more effective and powerful voice for the conservation of free-flowing, healthy rivers nationwide. The Wild and Scenic Rivers Coalition is an unincorporated alliance of these river and wildlands organizations:
Adventure Scientists
Alabama Rivers Alliance
Amargosa Conservancy
American Packrafting Association
American Rivers
American Whitewater
Amigos Bravos
CalWild
Cascade Forest Conservancy
Center for Water Security and Cooperation
Chattooga Conservancy
Citizens United to Protect the Maurice and its Tributaries
Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed
Crystal Wild and Scenic Coalition
Delaware River Greenway Partnership
Eightmile River Wild & Scenic Coordinating Committee
Farmington River Watershed Association
Flathead Rivers Alliance
Foothill Conservancy
Friends of the Kalmiopsis
Friends of the River
Friends of the Wekiva River
Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association
Greater Yellowstone Coalition
Hunterdon Land Trust
Idaho Rivers United
International Rivers
Kentucky Waterways Alliance
Kern River Conservancy
Love in Motion Foundation, Inc.
Missiquoi River Basin Association
Mono Lake Committee
Musconetcong Watershed Association
Nashua River Watershed Association
Nashua, Squannacook, and Nissitissit Rivers Wild & Scenic Stewardship Council
National Parks Conservation Association
National Rivers Project
New Mexico Wild
Northern Arizona University, Free-flowing Rivers Lab
OARS
Ohio River Foundation
Oregon Wild
Pacific Rivers
River Management Society
River Network
San Juan Citizens Alliance
Smith River Alliance
Snake River Fund
Sudbury, Assabet and Concord Wild & Scenic River Stewardship Council
Superior Rivers Watershed Association
Superior Watershed Partnership and Land Conservancy
Taunton River Watershed Alliance
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Wilderness Society
Upper Merced River Watershed Council
Upper Missisquoi and Trout Rivers, Wild & Scenic Committee
Washington Wild
West Virginia Rivers Coalition
Westfield Wild & Scenic River Advisory Committee
White Clay Watershed Association
Wild Alabama
Wild Rivers Conservancy of the St. Croix & Namekagon
Wildlands Trust
Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
York River Wild and Scenic Study Committee
Learn more about joining the Wild and Scenic Rivers Coalition.
Leadership Team
The Wild and Scenic Rivers Coalition is led by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Coalition Coordinator, Lisa Ronald, in collaboration with a Leadership Team that includes representation from the following organizations:
American Rivers (staffing sponsor)
American Whitewater (fiscal sponsor)
CalWild
Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association
Greater Yellowstone Coalition
Idaho Rivers United
Kern River Conservancy
Musconetcong Watershed Association
Northern Arizona University, Free-flowing Rivers Lab
River Management Society
Smith River Alliance
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Contact Us
Interested learning more about the Wild and Scenic Rivers Coalition? Email coordinator Lisa Ronald at [email protected] or call 406-396-3607. Download the Wild and Scenic Rivers Coalition Logo.