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"Houstonians up in arms over Army Corps' 'old-fashioned' flood fixes" "Sarah Bernhardt read the Army Corps of Engineers’ latest ideas on how to reduce flooding along Buffalo Bayou, feeling disappointed. Instead, the Corps proposed digging Buffalo Bayou wider and deeper, or channelizing it. Officials also suggested building a hulking third dam and reservoir — right on the painstakingly protected Katy Prairie, a once-sprawling habitat that slows, cleans and stores water..." This story features several HCC members! Complete story: Houston Chronicle "Paddlers dip into a different kind of current events" (Maryland) "What better way to while away pandemic time than floating down a river? In most canoes, the distance between the bow seat and the one in the stern measures the socially correct six feet. And the distance between the tranquility of a canoe/kayak trip (even one with rapids) and the world of cable news and social media is immeasurable..." Complete story: Chron.com "A Sweet Upgrade We Should All Add by Our Front Door" "In the HGTV series' season premiere, “A New Lease on Life,” Dave and Jenny meet Troy and Melode, who are hoping to give their house on the lake some classic lake-house style. While the whole house looks beautiful, Jenny and Dave also lavish some attention on the boathouse, transforming it from a simple spot to dock the boat to a stylish hangout spot... this space is extra special because it’s on the water, so Dave wants to give it a nautical theme. He ends up repurposing an old canoe as a fun lighting feature...." Complete story: Chron.com "Adventures on Spring Creek" (Houston) "White sandy beaches, high bluffs ideal for scaling, green pine trees stretching into blue skies, miles of forest, wide as a river in plenty of places, swift, deep currents following a decent rain — all within a short drive from the nation’s fourth-largest city...." Complete story: Chron.com "Mayor kayaks San Antonio River Walk" "San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg was one of thousands who took advantage of the rare chance to kayak the River Walk. While kayaking other districts of the San Antonio River has been a popular activity, paddling the famed area, where the hotels and businesses are located, is something that hasn't happened in 30 years..." Complete story: Chron.com "12,000km by Canoe Across The U.S." "Neal Moore is now over halfway through his 12,000km odyssey across the United States. He plans to paddle 22 rivers, portaging his fully laden canoe on a cart where necessary, and finishing in New York with a celebratory spin round the Statue of Liberty..." Complete story: Explorers Web "Man has close encounter when needlefish slams into his canoe" (Hawaii) "Cabral was about an hour and a half into his paddle and about to head back into Hilo Bay when something leaped out of the depths of the ocean. “Low and behold, a group of maybe 30 to 40 of these needlefish came jumping towards my one man canoe,” Cabral shared. “And it hit. It started to hit my canoe from behind to the middle where I was sitting and all the way up to the front of the canoe. It just sounded like bullets.” Cabral said that one of the fish actually punctured a hole in the canoe’s hull..." Complete story: WANE.com "Mushroom Canoe is Rooted in Nature" (Nebraska) "Just ask Katy Ayers, a Nebraska college student who built an eight-foot canoe molded almost entirely of mushroom. Katy got to work, building a frame suspended in the air by a hammock-like structure. Then they covered the boat’s skeleton with spores and let it proliferate in a hot, humid growing room. Two weeks later, they had a boat made of live mycelium..." Complete story: HackADay) "Author pens illustrated book on Tlicho canoe trip" (Canada) "The annual Trails of our Ancestors canoe trip is a rite of passage for many Tlicho youth. Each year, nearly 100 participants spend 10 days paddling between communities, learning stories of ascendants, and living out on the land. Nadine Neema explains that in many ways the trip is transformative. “They begin to learn parts about their own selves and their tradition and taking their place within that, in ways that, I think many of them haven’t really before,” she said..." Complete story: NNSL.com "New book paddles through the history of canoeing in Washington" (D.C.) "Chris Brown tries to paddle three times a week. He does not row. This is an important distinction. “I love being in a canoe.” That love has translated into a book that Chris has just released... In a canoe, you look forward. In rowing, you look backward. Chris did a lot of looking back as he researched the history of his club, the sport and its history in Washington..." Complete story: Washington Post
"Sarah Bernhardt read the Army Corps of Engineers’ latest ideas on how to reduce flooding along Buffalo Bayou, feeling disappointed. Instead, the Corps proposed digging Buffalo Bayou wider and deeper, or channelizing it. Officials also suggested building a hulking third dam and reservoir — right on the painstakingly protected Katy Prairie, a once-sprawling habitat that slows, cleans and stores water..." This story features several HCC members!
"What better way to while away pandemic time than floating down a river? In most canoes, the distance between the bow seat and the one in the stern measures the socially correct six feet. And the distance between the tranquility of a canoe/kayak trip (even one with rapids) and the world of cable news and social media is immeasurable..."
"In the HGTV series' season premiere, “A New Lease on Life,” Dave and Jenny meet Troy and Melode, who are hoping to give their house on the lake some classic lake-house style. While the whole house looks beautiful, Jenny and Dave also lavish some attention on the boathouse, transforming it from a simple spot to dock the boat to a stylish hangout spot... this space is extra special because it’s on the water, so Dave wants to give it a nautical theme. He ends up repurposing an old canoe as a fun lighting feature...."
"White sandy beaches, high bluffs ideal for scaling, green pine trees stretching into blue skies, miles of forest, wide as a river in plenty of places, swift, deep currents following a decent rain — all within a short drive from the nation’s fourth-largest city...."
"San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg was one of thousands who took advantage of the rare chance to kayak the River Walk. While kayaking other districts of the San Antonio River has been a popular activity, paddling the famed area, where the hotels and businesses are located, is something that hasn't happened in 30 years..."
"Neal Moore is now over halfway through his 12,000km odyssey across the United States. He plans to paddle 22 rivers, portaging his fully laden canoe on a cart where necessary, and finishing in New York with a celebratory spin round the Statue of Liberty..."
"Cabral was about an hour and a half into his paddle and about to head back into Hilo Bay when something leaped out of the depths of the ocean. “Low and behold, a group of maybe 30 to 40 of these needlefish came jumping towards my one man canoe,” Cabral shared. “And it hit. It started to hit my canoe from behind to the middle where I was sitting and all the way up to the front of the canoe. It just sounded like bullets.” Cabral said that one of the fish actually punctured a hole in the canoe’s hull..."
"Just ask Katy Ayers, a Nebraska college student who built an eight-foot canoe molded almost entirely of mushroom. Katy got to work, building a frame suspended in the air by a hammock-like structure. Then they covered the boat’s skeleton with spores and let it proliferate in a hot, humid growing room. Two weeks later, they had a boat made of live mycelium..."
"The annual Trails of our Ancestors canoe trip is a rite of passage for many Tlicho youth. Each year, nearly 100 participants spend 10 days paddling between communities, learning stories of ascendants, and living out on the land. Nadine Neema explains that in many ways the trip is transformative. “They begin to learn parts about their own selves and their tradition and taking their place within that, in ways that, I think many of them haven’t really before,” she said..."
"Chris Brown tries to paddle three times a week. He does not row. This is an important distinction. “I love being in a canoe.” That love has translated into a book that Chris has just released... In a canoe, you look forward. In rowing, you look backward. Chris did a lot of looking back as he researched the history of his club, the sport and its history in Washington..."