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Outside February 2002 William T. Vollmann	Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs What's that smell? It's a teeming avian sanctuary� and a sump of troubled waters. It's a mess that we created� and a puzzle we can't solve. It's California's Salton Sea, a hypersaline lake that kills the very life it shelters...
BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Peter Heller	The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina Risk New Orleans and Baton Rouge are one breached levee away from Katrina-like devastation. Can the Army Corps of Engineers save them?
Outside August 2005 Mike Grudowski	The New American Dream Towns Think Utopia doesn't exist? Maybe not yet, but these ten towns are making a play for perfection with adventure-friendly innovation and cool ideas for building smart communities. Plus the hottest concepts in urban revival, combating sprawl, and better hometown living.
Wired February 2002 Steven Kotler	Reengineering the Everglades For decades, the world's largest wetlands have been diked, dammed, diverted, and drained. Here's how massive earthmoving, underground plumbing, and statistical modeling are getting South Florida back to nature -- new and improved...
Outside June 2004 Mark Sundeen	Dry Run on the River of Sorrows The Dolores used to be one of the mightiest whitewater rivers in the West. Then politics and dry weather got in the way. But neither drought nor dam nor partisan bickering can stop the author from floating (and walking and driving) the entire course of the Rio de Nuestra Senora de los Dolores.
Outside January 2007 Rob Buchanan	Paradise Pretty Soon Four years ago, the president of Gabon announced the creation of an unprecedented 13 new national parks. Ready for a visit?
Outside March 2007	Biking New Orleans, Louisiana Do not bike along the muddy Mississippi levee near New Orleans for clean air or beautiful vistas. Bike the 120 miles for the memories it invokes.
Fast Company November 2013 Jeff Chu	Against The Tide The Dutch have a growing army of engineers, designers, and scientists who work with water, as the Netherlands built itself into the world's premier laboratory for how to tame the rivers and the seas. Today, the country's ideas and expertise may be its most valuable export.
Outside November 2001 Tim Cahill	Floating the Mighty Free and Easy A flotilla of stouthearted men and women confronts hissing snakes, weird rocks, flat water, and the greatest mud in the west; or, What I Did on my Summer Vacation...
High on Adventure April 2007 Lee Juillerat	Traveling the Rogue From the Cascades to the Ocean The Rogue River is a magical river in Southern Oregon's Cascades.
Popular Mechanics February 2006 Susan Tweit	Can't We Just Blow It Up? The world's biggest dam removal will return Washington's Elwha River to its free-flowing state. But the colossal three-year project proves there's a lot more to deconstruction than tons of TNT.
Outside September 2001 Mike Grudowski	Welcome to Your New Backyard Want instant access to the Big Outdoors -- trails, rivers, wild shores, just minutes from home -- without compromising your livelihood? Then check out these ten towns on the verge of paradise, where you don't have to ditch it all to have it all.
Outside April 2009 Wells Tower	The Tuber Having constructed the greatest flotation device mankind has ever known, the author embarks on an ill-conceived, possibly insane crossing of alligator-infested north Florida.
Outside August 2003 Misty Blakesley	Ecotourism Adventure Travel - Water in the Balance Water issues chronically become water wars. Here are some collisions in progress--from bang-ups over how to divide spoils to clashes over big cleanups--that need to be resolved in the years ahead.
Outside December 2001 Peter Heller	Pourover Somewhere at the bottom of the deepest canyon on earth flows the Cotahuasi� -- a long, roiling ribbon of whitewater, a river so old and dangerous that you never master it, you just surrender to it. And pay respect to its ghosts...
Outside September 2007 Nyberg et al.	City Slicker Escape from New York (and nine other big cities) with these 40 fast adventures
Real Travel Adventures May 2009 Jim Loomis	From Sea to Shining Sea ... By Train As my fingers traced the various routes on a map of Amtrak's nationwide system, I suddenly realized it's possible to literally travel around the entire country, connecting from one train to another.
Outside April 2007 Patrick Symmes	Leaping Tiger, Drowning River The world's greatest Communist supereconomy needs all the power it can get. With dams rising up all around, the author joins a team of Chinese and American rafters as they outrun the concrete on a wild descent of the Yangtze.
Outside August 2004	America's Top Dream Towns Seeking an underpopulated--and undiscovered--slice of paradise? Drop in to any of our 20 adventure towns, from burly Haines, Alaska, to serene Cedar Key, Florida, where you'll find cush, affordable base camps for spontaneous long weekends or a lifetime of wild fun.
Outside August 2002 John Galvin	Dude Over Troubled Water The strangest stuff litters the flood-sloshed banks of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. When the going gets gross, the man to call is Chad Pregracke, a crusading voyager in the war against trash.
Outside April 2006	Adrenaline Nation Secret instructions on how to plot an escape from your hardwired grind to wide-open adventure in North America.
Outside July 2003	Land o' the Free Our ten favorite stretches of American blacktop come with all the essential summer pleasures. So pick your pavement and go.
Real Travel Adventures February 2007 Linda Ballou	Slow Blowing Dream Coming home to Alaska's unrivaled beauty
Real Travel Adventures February 2006 Janice Lovelace	Eagles Soar A great place to find Bald Eagles in the winter is to head to northern Washington state, to the Nooksack River valley and the Skagit River valley.
Fast Company September 2006 John Rosenthal	L.A.'s Online Safety Net Non-profit Healthy City's Web site brings mapping technology to Los Angeles' social services.
High on Adventure August 2008 Les Furnanz	Lake Oswego... Oregon's Hike-Oar-Bike Paradise Plan your own visit to Lake Oswego soon, and bring your walking shoes, a bicycle, and a canoe or kayak to sample the town and its natural offerings.
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Adee & Moore	In the American Southwest, the Energy Problem Is Water Energy producers on the Colorado River are struggling
High on Adventure October 2007 Vicki Andersen	Life Along the Rio la Pasion Located in the western lowlands region of northern Guatemala, the River of Passion flows in a sinuous and westward advance.
Outside June 2010 Abe Streep	Flying High A lifelong fisherman gets his first taste of the hard stuff, and other vacation tales.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2011 Charles Paikert	Wealth Management Market Report: Hunting for Big Game in Tinsel Town Like the glamorous actors and actresses Los Angeles is famous for, the city's wealth management market stands out on the national scene.
Popular Mechanics February 2006 David Dobbs	Taming An Icy River Hurricanes aren't the only cause of catastrophic flooding. Huge chunks of jamming ice can wreak havoc, too.
Fast Company July 2002 Linda Tischler	Grand Forks and East Grand Forks: After the Flood (Literally) Tales of courage and recovery after a devastating flood.
Popular Mechanics May 2008 Erik Sofge	Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it.
Geotimes May 2004 Lisa Robert	Hijacking the Rio Grande: Aquifer Mining in an Arid River Basin A major dilemma for the modern Southwest: a choice between a future driven by rampant growth or by an obligation to hydrologic reality.
High on Adventure April 2000 Lee Juillerat	Rafting Oregon's Owyhee River
BusinessWeek May 25, 2011 Duane Stanford	Trade Slows as the Mississippi River Floods Delivery times for shipments of grain and other valuable commodities are slowing as floods raise the level of the Mississippi.
Geotimes May 2004 Swarzenski & Campbell	Tracking Contaminants Down the Mississippi The U.S. Geological Survey is working with scientists from various universities and state agencies to investigate the historic downstream delivery of sediment-associated contaminants into the Gulf of Mexico.
High on Adventure June 2007 Vicki Andersen	Belize Part 1: The Western Frontier Welcome to the Belizean rainforest, and its attendant nocturnal commotion.
Outside June 2007	New American Road Trip Cars are faster, highways are better, and there's cool stuff just about everywhere. Stop sitting on those vacation days and get out there. Our five two-week loops will get you rolling.
Outside July 2008 Kevin Fedarko	They Call Me Groover Boy The author's life at the helm of a Colorado River latrine raft.
Real Travel Adventures December 2008 Neely & Neely	Three Wonderful Weeks in China We chose to go to China just before the Olympics, when we thought prices would be still very good and it would not be so crowded yet every place would be clean and ready
Wired September 2002 Jeff Howe	The Great Thirst Drought and disease threaten to set off a water war in volatile Central Asia. US scientists are fighting back with a data-crunching system that could pump fresh hope into the region. Call it the New Hydronomy.
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick	Grand Canyon Floods On Nov. 21, the Department of the Interior approved a release of water from the Glen Canyon Dam in an attempt to rebuild the beaches and other sedimentary environments.
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Outside March 2003 Peter Stark	A Trip is Born The dream is a brand-new river route through a vast, primordial, wildlife-rich wonderland on the verge of environmental salvation. The reality is what happens when a small band of marginally prepared adventurers attempts the 400-mile first descent of Mozambique's mighty Lugenda.
High on Adventure February 2010 Lee Juillerat	Snowshoeing the Onion River The Onion River, legend says, was named by Paul Bunyan, the legendary logger.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Ross Purnell	Fly Fishing the Roaring Fork What you need to know about a fly fishing vacation in one of the American West's most fertile rivers.
Finefishing Fresh Water Andy Hahn	Whiskered Warriors of the Amazon Catfish on the Araguaia River.
Outside August 2007 Cameron Walker	Blowout The removal of 47-foot high Marmot Dam, on Oregon's Sandy River, will renew 11.5 miles of quality Class IV whitewater and 100 miles of steelhead habitat. Taking down a dam used to require an act of Congress. Now it's just good business.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2006 Morris Newman	Barry Shy's Gamble In a deal touted as the largest adaptive reuse project in downtown Los Angeles, local multifamily developer Barry Shy has paid $75 million for a block in the city's Broadway-Spring district, an elephant's graveyard of earlier attempts at redevelopment.