Jimmy Carter Runs the Chattooga River
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Jimmy Carter grew up on a small creek in Georgia which opened his eyes to the connection between humans and wild rivers. As his career as a politician flourished, his relationship with rivers intensified. Carter began to study the ways of paddling in its many forms, and his commencement, of sorts, was paddling on the in a tandem open-boat canoe. With only a few inches of the boat above water, Carter and his mentor Claude Terry, co-founder of American Rivers, completed the descent. From this experience, Carter carried a passion for conservation throughout his presidency by denying countless dam proposals on wild rivers. In from , , and Carter explains his commitment to America’s natural beauty.
