American Rivers
www.americanrivers.org
A nonprofit organization that works to preserve, protect, and restore
the river ecosystems of the United States. Cleanup of pollution,
restoration of salmon runs, prevention of new dam projects, and removal
of existing dams are just a few of the activities of American Rivers.
American Whitewater
www.americanwhitewater.org
Similar in some ways to American Rivers, but this organization focuses
on whitewater rivers and the rights of the people who want to paddle them.
AW works to protect paddlers' access to rivers, negotiates scheduled releases
on dammed rivers, and fights dam proposals on free-flowing rivers.
Davey Hearn
www.daveyhearn.com
Davey is a retired slalom C-1 racer who was a world champion and a
three-time U.S. Olympian during his nearly three-decade career. He
is now coaching aspiring slalom racers with the Bethesda Center of Excellence
in his hometown of Bethesda, Maryland. Davey and his wife Jennifer
put up this website in early 2004, and it immediately became an indispensable
source of information for whitewater canoe and kayak racers. Training
tips, a race schedule, race results, newspaper and magazine articles from
around the world... you'll find it all here.
The Epic Kayaks Newsletter
http://www.epickayaks.com/newsletter/archives/index.htm
U.S. paddler Greg Barton, a double gold medalist in flatwater sprint
kayaking at the 1988 Olympic Games, and South African Oscar Chalupsky,
an ocean kayak racer who has won the prestigious Molokai surf ski race
in Hawaii ten times, have teamed up to form Epic Kayaks, a manufacturer
of high-performance boats and paddles for touring and racing. Whenever
their busy schedules allow, they put together an e-mail newsletter with
lots of good racing news and training tips. Go to the link above
to subscribe to this newsletter or read archived editions.
USA Wildwater
www.usawildwater.com
"Wildwater" is the sport of racing down a section of river with rapids
of Class III or higher. Wildwater used to be the inseparable twin
of whitewater slalom racing, but since slalom returned to the Olympic program
in 1992, wildwater has faded into the background somewhat. The sport
remains popular in Europe, however, and here in the U.S. a group of wildwater
devotees are working hard to keep it alive. This site is their Internet
home base.
Bluff City Canoe Club
www.bluffcitycanoeclub.org
The paddling organization of record in the Memphis, Tennessee, area.
Meets the first Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM Central Time at the
Central Library, 3030 Poplar Avenue.
Memphis Whitewater
www.memphiswhitewater.com
The most active website forum of any club I know of. Mid Southerners
who like their water fast and steep.
I'll add some more links by and by..........