May 11: Messaging for river users who ignore signs and dro
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River Management Roundtable
May 11
, 2021 | 3:30 - 4:30 EST
Do you love your river sa
fety signage? Do you use web-based messaging to report current conditions o
r new hazards? Join us for a no-host discussion about signage being used to
both share best practices and advise river users about risks on and around
rivers.
Bring examples of great and not-great
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Website contentSocial media outreachOn
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rgency / accident protocol: who answers the 911 call?We are excited to be joined by Charlie Walb
ridge, a nationally-known whitewater safety expert with 45 yea
rs of river running experience. He is a well-known writer on whitewat
er safety issues and has written books and magazine articles on the su
bject. He’s served as an expert witness in many wrongful death cases and
is quoted often in newspapers and magazines. Charlie has been active in bo
th the American
Canoe Association (ACA) and American Whitewater (AW). He held the position o
f Safety Chairman for both organizations and now serves on the AW Board of
Directors. As a member of the ACA Instruction Committee he helped develop
programs in whitewater canoeing and swiftwater rescue. He is a swiftw
ater rescue instructor-trainer-educator and trains students and instruc
tors. He has paddled rivers throughout the US and Canada, made several fir
st descents, was an A-ranked C-1 slalom and wildwater racer in the mid-70’
s and worked part-time as a river guide until the mid-eighties. He has coll
ected and published reports of U.S. whitewater fatalities for over 30 years
.
About RMS River Managem
ent Roundtables
Each month, the River Managem
ent Society hosts virtual conversations with professional river, greenway,
and water trails leaders, planners, and managers whose community, region, s
tate and federal river will benefit from the experiences of peer-to-peer sh
aring. Our goal is to facilitate an open forum to support your work managin
g rivers. We work together to tackle common issues by asking questions, sha
ring solutions and building comradery.