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BL
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696772
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b518961
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| Title & Author
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Environmental history of the Hudson River : : human uses that changed the ecology, ecology that changed human uses /\ edited by Robert E. Henshaw ; with a foreword by Frances F. Dunwell
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c2011
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xxvii, 376 p. :: ill., maps (some col.) ;; 29 cm
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| ISBN
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143844026X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1438440278 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9781438440262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9781438440279 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references, webography and index
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| Contents
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Historical facts/biological questions -- Linkage between people and ecosystems: how did we get from separate to equal -- Symbioses between biologists and scientists -- Hudson River fisheries: once robust, now reduced -- Herpetofauna of the Hudson River watershed: a short history -- Human impacts on Hudson River morphology and sediments: a result of changing uses and interests -- The earliest thirteen millennia of cultural adaptation along the Hudson River estuary -- Archaeological indices of environmental change and colonial ethnobotany in seventeenth-century Dutch New Amsterdam -- Linking uplands to the Hudson River: lake to marsh records of climate change and human impact over millennia -- Vegetation dynamics in the northern Shawangunk Mountains: the last three hundred years -- Agriculture in the Hudson Basin since 1609 -- Ecology in the field of time: two centuries of interaction between agriculture and native species in Columbia COunty, New York -- The introduction and naturalization of exotic ornamental plants in New York's Hudson River Valley -- The rise and demise of the Hudson River ice harvesting industry: urban needs and rural responses -- Human sanitary waters and waste treatment in New York City -- Foundry Cove: icon of the interaction of industry with aquatic life -- River city: transporting commerce and culture -- Out of the Fray: scientific legacy of environmental regulation of electric generating stations in the HudsonRiver Valley -- Birth of the environmental movement in the Hudson River Valley -- The influence of the Hudson River school of art in the preservation of the river, its natural and cultural landscape, and evolution of the environmental law -- "Thy fate and mine are not repose": the Hudson and its influence -- The past as guide to a successful future
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| Subject
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Environmentalism-- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)-- History
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Human ecology-- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)-- History
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Natural history-- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
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Nature-- Effect of human beings on-- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)-- History
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Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.), Environmental conditions
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| Dewey Classification
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304.209747/3
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GF504.N7E68 2011
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GF504.N7E68 2011
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| Added Entry
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Henshaw, Robert E
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