The River Radius Podcast
Episodes
The Dream Planter: Rafael Gallo
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rafael Gallo began kayaking at the University of Tennessee in the 1970s, founded Rios Tropicales in Costa Rica in the 1985, prevented the Rio Pacuare ...
Sh!%%y Shuttles
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
River shuttles are as important to a river trip as the boat. And sometimes shuttles are easy and when they aren’t easy, they can be horrible. Th...
New Mexico's fenced off Rivers
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New Mexico passed a law in 2015 that unintentionally resulted in two public rivers now being fenced off from public use by private landowners. A case ...
Break & Request
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a quick hello and a request for story input from you, our listeners of The River Radius. Do you have a story of a river shuttle that...
Southern California's Water, Yesterday & Tomorrow
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Southern California is home for 19 million people and imports the majority of its municipal water from the Colorado and Sacramento Rivers, moving that...
Recycling (river) Water in Southern California
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For many decades water has been recycled after it runs through sewage treatment plants in cities large and small in many states and countries. That ...
River Swimming and the Blue Mind
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This past June of 2021, Matt Moseley attempted to swim 52 miles downriver in one day in the Green River of Utah. He was swimming to make a statement...
Source to Sea on the Saco River
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Saco RiverMount WashingtonWhite Mountains Atlantic Salmon JOE KLEMENTOVICHInstagramWebsite RIVERS FOR CHANGESource to Sea ProjectsInstagramWebsite ...
Supraglacial Rivers
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While interviewing Dr. Laurence C. Smith for an episode in May about his new book, "Rivers of Power, we went down a rabbit hole of talking about Supra...
History of the Groover
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The groover is one of those words that has become an adjective, a noun and a verb and originally has nothing to do with the thing it defines. The gr...
The Book: "Rivers of Power"
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Rivers of Power"was published in 2020. It covers humans' history with rivers from some of the earliest civilizations to the most powerful nations t...
Pacific Ocean takeout for SacSource2Sea
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sacramento Source to Sea: Website, InstagramSacramento RiverRivers for ChangeRiver Radius Podcast: website, instagram, facebook, emailSan Francisc...
What is a River 2021
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For many years, I have wondered about what really makes up a river. I can see the basic features and the flows, the source and end. But how does i...
Mile 153 Sacramento Source to Sea
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In March of 2021, three women launched a source to sea expedition on the Sacramento River in California. In this new episode, we talk for 25 minutes...
The silty byproduct of Lake Powell
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The last time Lake Powell was full was in 1986; today it sits at 1/3 of its capacity and it is expected to end 2021 lower than it is today. As this ...
Mile 0 Sacramento River Source to Sea
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Source to Sea trips are the journey from a river's headwaters to where that river meets the salt water. In 2021, The River Radius will host on river...
Returning Rapids of Cataract 2021
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When the free running Colorado River smashes into the still water of Lake Powell, it drops its massive sediment load into Cataract Canyon and the rese...
Trailer River Radius Podcast
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This trailer for The River Radius Podcast provides a peek into a few episodes and a has a short description from the host describing what this podcast...
River Permits
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you rally up your river friends each January and coordinate your river permit dates? Do you get permits? Do you wonder who is behind the curtai...
Rowing Home 5000 miles
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first river Ellen Falterman paddled was the Amazon, upriver in a 400 lb dugout canoe for a few weeks with her brother. But that is not the story...
The Blue Nile River
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Blue Nile River starts in Ethiopia and confluences with the White Nile River in Sudan to form the Nile River. The Nile River is the longest rive...
Freedom River
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A local guy from Moab, Utah was ready to turn himself in for a warrant in Colorado. The jail he would spend time in was near the same river that ran...
Part 2: Building Fish
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After the genetically pure Greenback Cutthroat Trout was found above a waterfall in Bear Creek, Colorado Parks and Wildlife quickly worked to secure t...
Part 1: Something Fishy
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Before Manifest Destiny arrived in North America, the Greenback Cutthroat Trout only lived in the South Platte River Basin of the Southern Rockies in ...
Thirsty Growth
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Poudre River starts in Rocky Mountain National Park and flows through fantastic country. Immediately when it leaves the mountains it is put to w...
The Confluence of boating and writing
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode digs into a key concept of waste and the philosophy of Georges Bataille that Zak Podmore uses to define waste. The authors that have in...
Hoops's Echo
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In December of 2019, "The Salad Days" film was released telling a brief story of Herm Hoops's life. He landed his dream job as a Ranger at Dinosaur ...
From The Grand to Corona
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While spending 25 days intentionally away from the world of technology and news and globalization, a group of friends navigated the Colorado River thr...
8000 Years on the Selway
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For two summers, I have been able to row gear boats down the Selway to support this archaeology research. My view has been that of the laymen, the n...
2020
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2020 is an important push out year for this podcast. Target topics are discussed here, and an invitation for you as the listener to engage. Also, ...
138 Days on a River
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny and Mike Fiebig took 6 months off from their normal working, shopping, daily life to get back to the land and the river. They hiked to the headw...
Highwater, Helicopters and Money
12 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As the winter of 1983 closed out in the Western United States, the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains were covered in exceptionally deep snow. Spri...