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
Getting Kids on the River
Getting kids on the river is many things: fun, life-shaping and maybe intimidating. Lindsay DeFrates has written numerous “How to” articles based on her experience taking her 3 kids on river trips. …
Cleaning Rivers by the Barge Load
River cleanups with excavators, barges, bigfoot and Oreos. Living Lands & Waters is an “Industrial Strength River Cleanup” organization working to clean up the big rivers of middle America. 24 year…
How to Listen to The River Radius Podcast
Have you ever heard someone say they don't listen to podcasts or don't know how? Have you recently learned how to listen and want to know more? This episode is all about how to listen to an episode…
Autopsy of a Post Reservoir River
Is it a reservoir in crisis or a river recovering? In October of 2021 a crew of river scientist and river runners and this podcast traveled down Cataract Canyon to examine a retreating reservoir an…
The Gila: river, place, family
The Gila River and Gila Mountains of New Mexico have been home for Indigenous people for thousands of years, for colonial Spanish and Mexican people for hundreds of years, and now for all of those fo…
The New Film "River's End"
Dry rivers and deserts full of irrigated nut trees. Jacob Morrisons new film, “The River's End: California’s New Water War” leans into the questions about agriculture and how rivers can be maintained…
The Dream Planter: Rafael Gallo
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 from being dammed, was inducted into the Internat…
Sh!%%y Shuttles
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. This episode is a set of four stories from The River Ra…
New Mexico's fenced off Rivers
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 was presented before the New Mexico State Supreme…
Break & Request
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 went sideways, really far sideways? We want to h…
Southern California's Water, Yesterday & Tomorrow
Southern California is home for 19 million people and imports the majority of its municipal water from the Colorado and Sacramento Rivers, moving that water hundreds of miles through humanmade aquedu…
Recycling (river) Water in Southern California
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 recycled water is used for landscaping and industr…
River Swimming and the Blue Mind
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 about the state of water in western US. The rive…
Source to Sea on the Saco River
JOE KLEMENTOVICH
RIVERS FOR CHANGE
Source to Sea Projects
THE RIVER RADIUS
THE R…
Supraglacial Rivers
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 Supraglacial Rivers. This short conversation gets the…
History of the Groover
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 groover is that portable, leakproof and reusable riv…
The Book: "Rivers of Power"
"Rivers of Power"was published in 2020. It covers humans' history with rivers from some of the earliest civilizations to the most powerful nations today and how water is possibly the greatest natura…
Pacific Ocean takeout for SacSource2Sea
What is a River 2021
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 it really work? Why does it work? What are the pro…