Funding is now available to help local communities in Ohio make road salt application and storage safer and more efficient. Every winter tons of road salt is spread on our roads and when that snow melts, that salt runs directly into our local waterways making the water toxic for mussels and other aquatic life, and polluting our drinking water.
The digital version of our 2023 River Waves Newsletter is now available! This year we continued to build on the successes of 2022, working on behalf of the millions of people who call the Ohio River watershed home. All facets of our program work achieved results that...
By Jacalyn Carfagno – Kentucky Lantern/WKMS In the early years of this nation and state, settlers built small dams on rivers and streams to capture waterpower for mills, enable navigation and assure a water supply. In the middle part of the last century even...
Under its Save Our Parks program and its work as coordinator for the 22-county Ohio River Valley Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (ORV CISMA), Ohio River Foundation (ORF) is poised to expand its existing relationships with local communities by providing...
On Oct. 17, 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially removed 21 species from the endangered species list. Unfortunately, these species have been removed not because they have recovered but because they are officially being declared extinct. Eight of these...
Educators are encouraged to submit applications for the 2023-24 school year By Megan Alley, Sun Editor The Ohio River Foundation is offering its hands-on, science, technology, engineering, and math environmental education programs to area students again this year, and...