Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. I'm Phil Monaghan, editor of the

fly fishing blog at Orvis News.com sitting in for Tom Rosenbauer.

The reason we're doing a podcast today without Tom, which we would never do normally,

is that American Rivers released its list of the 10 most endangered rivers in the US today.

And we wanted to make sure we got the word out to you immediately.

So we've got David Mark, Senior Director of River Protection at American Rivers on the phone, and we're going to talk to him about what this list means and where we go from here. So welcome, David.

Great to be with you. What is the theory behind this

list of 10 rivers? Obviously we have hundreds if not thousands of rivers

across the country in danger.

What do you hope to achieve with your annual list of 10?

And when did you start doing this list?

We did this.

We started doing this about nearly 30 years ago now and we use it as a tool to highlight rivers across the country that really stand at a crossroads and in many ways and there's a decision that's going to be made that folks who love and cherish and fish and hike and hunt along these rivers, you know, they can have their voice heard over the next year to do

something about about them to help protect it or restore them. Can you give us an

example from from your list of ten of a river that is facing a very serious

decision or is that some sort of tipping point? Sure well our number one river

this year in our America's most endangered rivers list is the Susquehanna

River in New York, Pennsylvania.

And that river is faced by an unprecedented threat of hydraulic fracturing or fracking as they call it,

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