The River Radius Podcast
This is a river podcast, and a great story, boating, science, adventure and conservation podcast.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 119
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Source to Sea: Maine's Sandy & Kennebec Rivers
25 years ago the Edwards Dam was removed from the Kennebec River in Maine allowing alewives and sturgeon to return to their spawning grounds in force, revitalizing the ecosystem and delighting the pa…
What is a River 2024: Chilcotin River Landslide, Dam & Breach
In the summer of 2024, the Chilcotin River in British Columbia had a landslide that completely blocked the river creating a natural dam. For the next 6 days the river water backed up behind this dam…
Bats & Rabid Misinformation in the Grand Canyon
Why have cases of reported bat encounters at the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon drastically increased in the last several years? What are the chances of contracting rabies from a bat encounter? H…
Sexual Harassment in River Guide Culture
Working as a commercial river guide is one of the best jobs, day after day on rivers, helping people enjoy rivers, seeing beauty, having fun, chasing adrenaline. Creating incredible friendships, some…
2024 Snowpack & Riverflow
As snow is melting and running down rivers across the US, this episode talks with hydrologists at 5 regions of the National River Forecast Center to gain perspectives on how much snow and rain fell o…
Dam Removal Updates & Trends
Dams have been blocking rivers for decades. Is there a growing crack in the dam? This episode explores dam removal as an increasing trend. We talk with guests at the Chattooga River and Tugalo Dam, …
10 Rivers for 2024
Each year American Rivers publishes a list of 10 rivers that hold great opportunity for river quality improvements. This year, in addition to covering the full list with Amy Kober of American Rivers,…
Part 2 The Emerald Mile...Is It Lost?
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Part 1 The Emerald Mile, The Forest Behind the Story
Kevin Fedarko’s book, the Emerald Mile, takes readers on the journey of the fastest ride through the Grand Canyon in a dory named the Emerald Mile. Fedarko’s book dives into the backstory of the dam,…
Atmospheric Rivers 101
Atmospheric Rivers are bands of water vapor in the sky, sometimes a few thousand miles long, bringing winter moisture to the west coast of North America and delivering it all the way to the Rocky Mou…
American Whitewater’s Top 10 River Stewardship Focus
American Whitewater published their Top 10 List of Stewardship issues in January 2024. This is a mix of dam removal projects, legislation and policy pushes, Wild and Scenic options, all encompassed …
Queer River Guiding; 1 Professional’s Experience
The river guiding and river running world are sometimes perceived as idyllic and welcoming. When is it something different? Our guest today is an openly gay man, and he share’s his story of working…
The Mountain Hydrology Lab & Future River Flows
The Mountain Hydrology Lab at West Virginia University has defined the density of whitewater river runs in the United States and cross referenced this data with how climate change will alter those fl…
Heart Attack on the River
In the first episode of 2024, a commercial river guide tells his story of having a massive heart attack while guiding a trip in May of 2023 on the South Fork of the American River in California. This…
Heather Hansman & Teal Lehto: Conversations on their Craft & Conservation
There are numerous authors and media professionals doing work to explore river topics. To close out the 2023 river and podcast year, this episode hosts two of the best. Heather Hansman is an author…
Klamath 2: The Next Generation of Paddle Tribal Waters
The Klamath River 2nd episode. In the Spring of 2025, a group of teenagers from several Tribal Nations of the Klamath River Basin and greater region will descend the newly undammed Klamath River from…
Klamath 1: The Origin of Paddle Tribal Waters
After 100 years of dams stagnating the flows of the Klamath River and killing the Salmon runs, a group of teenagers from the tribal nations of the Klamath Basin will paddle the Klamath from source to…
Payson Kennedy
Payson Kennedy at 39 was a career academic, and with his wife Aurelia had four kids, a house, and two cars in Atlanta. After working on the stunt team for the film Deliverance in 1971 and a summer r…