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  • ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY of the HUDSON RIVER
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE HUDSON RIVER WATERSHED
  • PART I. HISTORY AND BIOLOGY
  • 1. HISTORICAL FACTS/BIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS
  • 2. LINKAGES BETWEEN PEOPLE AND ECOSYSTEMS
  • 3. SYMBIOSES BETWEEN BIOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
  • PART II. RIVER OF RESOURCES
  • 4. HUDSON RIVER FISHERIES
  • 5. HERPETOFAUNA OF THE HUDSON RIVER WATERSHED
  • 6. HUMAN IMPACTS ON HUDSON RIVER MORPHOLOGY AND SEDIMENTS
  • 7. THE EARLIEST THIRTEEN MILLENNIA OF CULTURALADAPTATION ALONG THE HUDSON RIVER ESTUARY8. ARCHAEOLOGICAL INDICES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND COLONIAL ETHNOBOTANY INSEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH NEW AMSTERDAM
  • 9. LINKING UPLANDS TO THE HUDSON RIVER
  • 10. VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN THE NORTHERN SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS
  • 11. AGRICULTURE IN THE HUDSON BASIN SINCE 1609
  • 12. ECOLOGY IN THE FIELD OF TIME
  • 13. THE INTRODUCTION AND NATURALIZATION OF EXOTIC ORNAMENTAL PLANTS IN NEW YORKâ€? SHUDSON RIVER VALLEY
  • PART III. RIVER OF COMMERCE
  • 14. THE RISE AND DEMISE OF THE HUDSON RIVERICE HARVESTING INDUSTRY15. HUMAN SANITARY WASTES AND WASTE TREATMENT IN NEW YORK CITY
  • 16. FOUNDRY COVE
  • 17. RIVER CITY
  • 18. OUT OF THE FRAY
  • PART IV. RIVER OF INSPIRATION
  • 19. BIRTH OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY
  • 20. THE INFLUENCE OF THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOLOF ART IN THE PRESERVATION OF THE RIVER, ITS NATURAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, AND THE EVOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
  • 21. “THY FATE AND MINE ARE NOT REPOSEâ€?
  • 22. THE PAST AS GUIDE TO A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE
  • AFTERWORD
  • Contributorsweb addresses of cited and key agencies, not-for-profit organizations, andacademic institutions in the hudson river basin
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