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| New River | Credit: NPS |
In 2024, the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) completed a federal lands update of the Nationwide Rivers Inventory (NRI) using readily available planning information from an array of wild and scenic river-administering agencies including regional NPS staff, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and U.S. Forest Service (USFS).
The update removed 320 miles of rivers that have been designated as wild and scenic rivers, updated attribute information for existing NRI river segments, corrected existing geospatial data to reflect river shape and mileage more accurately, and added approximately 1,300 segments (nearly 10,000 miles) to the NRI.
The update brought the total number of segments to just under 4,500, and the total mileage in the NRI to approximately 90,000 miles.
As part of the effort, NPS released a new online interactive map where users can Explore the Nationwide Rivers Inventory.
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