The River Radius Podcast

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 with the crew at mile 153 and hear about how the …

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 reservoir drops, it exposes more and more of the s…

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, real time interviews with various source to sea …

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 reservoir.  This has been happening since the late 19…

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 curtain of rec.gov and the permitting offices?  This epis…

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 here.  The story here is that her second river tr…

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 river in the world.  The Blue Nile starts in the highl…

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 through his hometown of Moab.  He brought his kay…

After the genetically pure Greenback Cutthroat Trout was found above a waterfall in Bear Creek, Colorado Parks and Wildlife quickly worked to secure this fish, and to propagate it in its native basin…

Before Manifest Destiny arrived in North America, the Greenback Cutthroat Trout only lived in the South Platte River Basin of the Southern Rockies in Colorado.  This fish was beat up as it lived in t…

The Poudre River starts in Rocky Mountain National Park and flows through fantastic country.  Immediately when it leaves the mountains it is put to work providing water for humans in many application…

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 influenced his writing and given him insight into ch…

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 National Monument, home of Echo Park.  He boated D…

While spending 25 days intentionally away from the world of technology and news and globalization, a group of friends navigated the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon building friendships, explo…

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 novice archeologist, the boater.  At the end of eac…

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, some insight is covered regarding what happened in …

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 headwaters of the Green River in the Wind River Mounta…

As the winter of 1983 closed out in the Western United States, the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains were covered in exceptionally deep snow. Spring was warming up and rain was falling. This com…