Uganda Whitewater vs Power | Big End of Year Decisions Impact the Fate of the Nile

by Jessie Stone | Jan 10, 2020 | Featured Post, JAdventures Main Banner, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature

Big End of Year Decisions Impact the Fate of the Nile November 2019 marked my 17th year whitewater paddling in Uganda and the 16th year of Soft Power Health’s work in Uganda. Boy does time fly bye when you are not paying attention to it! Despite the construction of...

Kenyan Wild Ride

by Will Richardson | Dec 5, 2019 | Exploration Feature

Conservation lion safari in Kenya? Hold on…. What is going on here? You may have noticed. One of the common themes here at Jackson is travel. Everyone I work with is a traveller at heart. Sometimes we do it to find new rivers to run, or fish to catch, forests to...

The Good, The Bad, and How You Can Help

by Chris Ritchie | Nov 12, 2019 | Fishing, Fishing Instruction, Freshwater, Freshwater Fishing

15 years ago, when I was a teen and really started going out on the rivers alone, it was a different world than it is now. You rarely ever saw a kayak. I don’t think that I had ever seen one on the water at all. Only in stores. Everyone, including myself, used an old...

Why should I care?…funny you should ask

by Herschel Finch | May 5, 2018 | Fishing, Internationalisation, rivers, United States

Not sure if you’ve noticed but I’m kind of a clean water and tree-hug’n/Dirt-worshiper type. And as such, I’ve been kind of busy since last fall and right thru to now. Which kind helps explain my absence from the boards here lately. I was tapped by folks at the...

12 Rivers in 2012 – 2,000 Miles of Boating in California in the Jackson Rogue

by JK Fans | Apr 19, 2012 | Rogue, Whitewater

In January, Danielle Katz and I started on quest called 12 Rivers in 2012.  We are paddling 12 California Rivers, source to sea, over the coming year.  In addition to doing the miles, we are engaging the local communities in stewardship, conservation and citizen...

Conservation And Management Working Together

by Tray Collins | Jan 23, 2012 | Whitewater

I joined a few members of the Lafayette Kayak Fishing Club to enjoy what was to become a beautiful day on the water, and a fishing tournament with a great purpose. The club decided to kick off 2012 with a non-series tournament that’s different than anything they’ve...