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September 29-30, 2009

State of the Hudson River Watershed:
A Conference on the Ecological Status
of the Waters of the Hudson River and its Tributaries

The Henry A. Wallace Center
at the FDR Presidential Library, Museum and Home
Hyde Park, NY

A conference organized by the Hudson River Environmental Society, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, U.S. Geological Survey, Hudson River Estuary Program of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Estuary Training Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Hudson Basin River Watch, National Park Service, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

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Hudson River Environmental Society Symposium - Environmental History

As a part of the Official Celebration of the Quadricentenial of Henry Hudson's historic sail up the River that bears his name.

Environmental History of the Hudson River:
Human Uses that Affected the Ecology and Changing
Ecology that Forced Changes in Human Uses

November 5 & 6, 2009
Holiday Inn, Motel & Conference Center
Fishkill, NY

A two-part symposium examining the past 400 years of how natural attributes of the Hudson River Valley influenced human uses and consequences for the ecology and environmental health of the Hudson River Valley. Invited experts will describe ecosystems during the period of human occupation and use, that changed the river ecology. All authors will discuss both aspects as they examine the interactive effects. On the second day a select panel will evaluate how such feedback mechanisms may play out over the next 400 years. A companion white paper of transactions will be published with all presentations and conclusions.

We hope to foster new discussions and new ways of reasoning among historians, biologists, economists, and other disciplines. The content should be of great value to regulatory and administrative agencies. All authors will orient their discussions around the conceptual feedback relationships between extant ecosystem character and how human uses affect those ecosystems.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Thomas Lewis, noted Hudson River Historian,
Skidmore College

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	HUDSON RIVER FOUNDATION WINTER/SPRING SEMINARS 2009
A seminar series on scientific issues related to the environmental quality and resource management of the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary
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