27th Annual California River Awards

Join us for the 2025 California River Awards, a night dedicated to celebrating and protecting California’s rivers! With our waterways facing unprecedented threats, this event is more important than ever. Visit our event website to learn more and find out how you can get involved.

River Guide Activist Training

Love rivers? Take action! 🌊 Join Friends of the River for a 9-day River Guide Activist Training (April 11-19, 2025) on the South Fork American River. Learn whitewater guiding, river safety, advocacy, and leadership—while camping under the stars! Scholarships available.

Join Our Team

Join Friends of the River as our River Operations Coordinator and help protect California’s rivers and have fun doing it! The position is seasonal from April through September, and full-time during the 6 month period. Are you a passionate river advocate, a leader and team player with the desire to provide meaningful outdoor experiences that will help move people to action? Apply today!

Saving California rivers is up to us

With your support, we can work together to restore flows where excessive diversions reduce flows, to improve hydropower operations to benefit people and fish, to fight destructive reservoirs, and to strengthen river protections.

Friends of the River

Committed to becoming a more powerful voice for a climate resilient water future in California with healthy rivers, equal access to safe and affordable drinking water, and a thriving, sustainable economy for all Californians.

OUR WORK

Friends of the River works not just to preserve our rivers, but to change how people think about them—not as a resource to be exploited, but as a treasure to be enjoyed.

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