Changes In The Hudson River

The Rensselaer Land Trust invites the public to attend a free presentation entitled, “Changes in the Hudson River over the Last 150 Years,” delivered by Dan Miller, Habitat Restoration Coordinator with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Hudson River Estuary Program, to be held at 7 pm on Thursday, March 29, at the East Greenbush Library. Miller will speak about his work identifying opportunities to restore important habitats in the Hudson River Estuary.
Dan Miller has been involved in extensive research identifying historic conditions in the Hudson and how they have changed over the past 150 years. With the understanding of historic change, he hopes to partner with communities along the Hudson to implement habitat restoration projects that will ensure a healthy and productive future for the River and the surrounding communities. Miller will discuss habitat restoration objectives that will:
• restore free flow to tributaries, where appropriate, by removing dams and “day-lighting” buried streams;
• restore fish passage to places where it occurred historically;
• maintain and restore natural, or soft, shorelines, and
• restore tidal wetland hydrology.