Kayakers start 400-mile trip

Kayakers start 400-mile trip

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: Sun, May. 17, 2009 02:00AM
Modified Sun, May. 17, 2009 04:29AM
BREVARD -- Students and professors from Brevard College are embarking on a 400-mile kayak expedition through the Carolinas.
The trip will take 11 students and two professors through the Catawba-Wateree River basin.
They left Saturday on the Catawba, near Linville Gorge, and will wind up 18 days later in the Atlantic Ocean at Charleston, S.C.
Each year students from the college, called the Voice of the Rivers team, take river journeys.
The Catawba-Wateree watershed was recognized last year as the nation's most endangered river by the group American Rivers.
The students will study the importance of the river and camp on the riverside.
After the trip, they'll talk about their experiences at school programs, with the news media and with conservation groups.