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 river he was swimming was at record low levels. Matt has completed open water swims in the Colorado River, Lake Pontchartrain, the Caribbean Ocean, Lake Tahoe and he does it all to bring attention to water. His "early morning job" is open water swimming. His "day job" is a PR strategist. He serves as the c...
Jul 06, 2021•56 min•Ep. 25
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Jun 22, 2021•53 min•Ep. 24
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 basics of these unique rivers that start on the top of the glaciers and is a more candid expression from Dr. Smith about this topic that he researches at great depth. Supraglacial rivers are constantly moving their locations, changing flows and are unique among rivers as they carry no sediment. GUEST...
Jun 08, 2021•22 min•Ep. 23
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 river toilet that gets packed on so many overnight river trips. It has become an essential tool for protecting the quality of the river corridor where humans travel for recreation. This episode is a conversation with people who experienced the rivers when the need for the groover first emerged, and these...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 22
"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 natural capital. Rivers, their water and their usefulness for society has not changed. What is changing is how humans can and do move that water from source to a place of use. This episode explores great canals that are under construction, massive dams that are creating international tensions, efforts to u...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 21
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Apr 29, 2021•35 min•Ep. 20
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 prominent forces creating the path of the river. This longer episode is a direct interview and conversation with Dr. David Montgomery from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dave is a geologist by training and says to understand landscape, you have to understand rivers. He is an author and appears if ...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 19
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 river has changed once they left the mountains and was impounded behind a few different dams. They call themselves Sacramento Source to Sea . They skied on snow to get to their river launch and began paddling downriver. We interviewed them before they launched in episode 16, Mile 0 Sacramento River S...
Mar 31, 2021•25 min•Ep. 18
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 sediment dumps that have been hiding below the water. As the Colorado River hits the dead current of Lake Powell, it drops its sediment load. That sediment is clogging the river way and is critical to the health of the river downstream, all the way to the ocean, and yet it can't get there. In the Retur...
Mar 23, 2021•38 min•Ep. 17
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 trips. The first is the Sac Source to Sea, a journey launching on March 14 2021 down the Sacramento River. The Sac, as this river is called, feeds a huge agricultural community in the Sacramento Valley, and that valley supplies an immense amount of food to the United States. In this Mile 0 episode, yo...
Mar 09, 2021•37 min•Ep. 16
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 1970s when Powell was approaching full pool. And for the last 20 years, Powell has been slowly and steadily decreasing its volume because there is not enough annual inflows from the Green, Gunnison and San Juan Rivers that drain the Southern Rockies into the Colorado River. As the water drops more, sedi...
Feb 24, 2021•40 min•Ep. 15
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 provides the listener. THE RIVER RADIUS Website Runoff signup (episode newsletter) Instagram Facebook Apple Podcast Spotify Link Tree
Feb 19, 2021•2 min
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 episode asked all those questions and spoke with the river permitting "boss" at rec.gov, and the river permit offices at Dinosaur National Monument, Salmon-Challis National Forest in Idaho and Grand Canyon National Park. There are people behind the curtain, they are very friendly and shared with The River R...
Feb 11, 2021•41 min•Ep. 14
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 trip was a run down the Missouri River from Montana to St Louis, and then her third river to paddle was the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. And she kept going, along the coastal islands and then via the Intra Coastal Waterway to Texas, to her home and her family. She accomplished ...
Dec 17, 2020•47 min•Ep. 13
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 highlands of Ethiopia and courses through deep gorges and canyons, open country and passes by many small and larger groups of people living along the river. This river is home to the Nile Crocodile and Hippopotamus both of which can pursue humans as prey. The Grand Renaissance Ethiopian Dam was recently com...
Dec 01, 2020•56 min•Ep. 12
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 kayak with him and planned to float home after his jail time was up. As he approached the jail, the call of the river and the "nice day" simply won out, and he floated right past the jail. Downstream that day and the next were two permitted stretches of river, Ruby Horsethief and West Water, and he did no...
Oct 31, 2020•17 min•Ep. 11
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, the South Platte River Basin. Projects have included several smaller stream areas where the Greenback has been reintroduced to its basin. Currently the largest project yet, over 30 miles of stream reintroduction, is in the works. This is a multi-agency effort, involves the Wild and Scenic Poudre Ri...
Sep 30, 2020•41 min•Ep. 10
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 the streams where Europeans first inhabited Colorado. It was then accidentally saved from extinction over 100 years ago by an unknowing entrepreneur who put it up high in a mountain stream where it was left alone for 100 plus years. In the 20th Century, fish enthusiasts and researchers began work to he...
Sep 30, 2020•40 min•Ep. 9
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 applications. This river even has its flows augmented by inputs that are diverted from streams on the other side of the Continental Divide. Today, there are several Front Range municipalities and water districts actively working to develop water rights from the Poudre for distribution and use in existing and eme...
Aug 29, 2020•46 min•Ep. 8
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 challenging topics are explored to include Charles Bowden and Ed Abbey. Zak talks about the process of writing this book and the mentors that supported him: Amy Irvine, Craig Childs, Mark Sundeen. Zak also explains the power of his Mom's life on his life, and then simply enough, uses his own adventures ...
Jun 02, 2020•49 min•Ep. 7
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 Desoloation Canyon on the Green River again and again and again. Possibly his last trip down Deso is documented in "The Salad Days." This interview is with Herm Hoops, his wife Valerie Hoops and film maker Cody Perry. They talk about Herms life, the concepts of this film, and rivers need the boaters to ...
May 04, 2020•37 min•Ep. 6
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, exploring the canyons, resetting their life trajectory. In that 25 day period, a virus that started at a market in inland China has caught rides in cars, on planes and trains, and has moved to 6 continents, killing people, maxing out health care systems, scaring financial markets, causing rigid government...
Mar 21, 2020•48 min•Ep. 5
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 each summer's trip, I have interviewed Jeff Adams of Interior West Consulting to hear the onsite interpretation of what was recorded over the past 8 days. The stone artifacts tell a story. The river and its perfect water add to the story. While I find it stubbornly awkward to make assumptions about a huma...
Feb 20, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 4
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 2019 to build this podcast. THE RIVER RADIUS Website Runoff signup (episode newsletter) Instagram Facebook Apple Podcast Spotify Link Tree...
Jan 26, 2020•6 min•Ep. 3
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 Mountains of Wyoming and started walking, then packrafting and eventually they launched their custom dory on the Green River and went downstream, all the way to the Mexican border with the United States. This could be a story about all the big rapids and waves and runs....and its not. It’s a story about th...
Jun 18, 2019•55 min•Ep. 2
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 combination of fast melting snow and rain timed the runoff into the Green and Colorado Rivers just perfect to create record high flows well above 100,000 CFS into Cataract Canyon. It was commercial river season in Cataract and two trips were being pushed into running the biggest water in North America to ...
May 12, 2019•39 min•Ep. 1
