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Hudson River

Hudson Estuary Tree Program Accepting Applications

February 10, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Volunteers planting a tree at a Trees for Tribs siteNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has announced that their Hudson Estuary Trees for Tribs Program is accepting applications for spring stream-side planting projects. Anyone that owns or manages property near a stream in the Hudson River Estuary watershed is eligible to apply for free native trees and shrubs. [Read more…] about Hudson Estuary Tree Program Accepting Applications

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature Tagged With: DEC, Hudson River, nature, trees

DEC Proposes Circle Hook Requirement For Striped Bass

January 11, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Striped Bass courtesy DECThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released a new proposed regulation for public review and comment that would require the use of circle hooks when recreational fishing for Atlantic striped bass. [Read more…] about DEC Proposes Circle Hook Requirement For Striped Bass

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, New York City, Recreation Tagged With: DEC, fish, Fisheries, fishing, Hudson River, nature, Wildlife

Sullivan County D&H Canal History Highlighted With ‘Kate Project’

December 23, 2020 by John Conway Leave a Comment

OntheTowpathDuring the month of December in 1824, brothers William and Maurice Wurts were diligently planning a presentation to potential investors in their ambitious project to build a canal connecting their coal fields in northeastern Pennsylvania to the Hudson River. [Read more…] about Sullivan County D&H Canal History Highlighted With ‘Kate Project’

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: D&H Canal, Delaware & Hudson Railroad, Hudson River, Industrial History, New York City, Sullivan County, Transportation History

The First (Short Lived) Suspension Bridge Across The Hudson River

December 17, 2020 by Mike Prescott 1 Comment

Robert Codgell GilchristRobert Codgell Gilchrist was born into an extremely wealthy well-connected Charleston family in 1829. The oligarchic families of South Carolina had made their wealth on tobacco, rice, indigo, and shipping and Charleston harbor was one of the centers of the southern slave trade. Robert Gilchist’s father had received a federal Judgeship from President Martin Van Buren and he owned an opulent home.

Each summer the wealthy Gilchrist family journeyed north to avoid the hot humid subtropical summers of Charleston. They stayed with maternal family members in the Great Northern Wilderness of New York. (The term Adirondacks is said to have been first used by geologist and surveyor Ebenezer Emmons in 1838 and took some time to come into general use). [Read more…] about The First (Short Lived) Suspension Bridge Across The Hudson River

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Chestertown, D&H, development, Hudson River, Johnsburg, North Creek, railroads

Easement Acquired On 1830 Dutchess County Farm

December 15, 2020 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Jordan Lane Farm Pine Plains NYThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Dutchess Land Conservancy (DLC) have announced the acquisition of a conservation easement on an 1830 farm in the town of Pine Plains.

The Land Conservancy acquired the Jordan Lane Farm easement with New York State Water Quality Improvement Project (WQIP) funding that provides resources to protect source waters. [Read more…] about Easement Acquired On 1830 Dutchess County Farm

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Agricultural History, clean water, Dutchess County, Historic Preservation, Hudson River, local farms, nature, Pine Plains, Wappinger Creek, water quality

OSI Protects Land Near West Mountain, Warren County

November 18, 2020 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

 OSIs West Mountain Property in Saratoga County Bob Stone Courtesy of Open Space InstituteBuilding on more than three decades of protecting land in and around the Adirondack Park, the Open Space Institute (OSI) has announced the permanent protection of land in the Town of Lake Luzerne.

The newly protected 1,260-acre “West Mountain” property is located west of the West Mountain Ski Area, between the southeastern boundary of the Adirondack Park and Moreau Lake State Park and adjacent to Ralph Road State Forest.

[Read more…] about OSI Protects Land Near West Mountain, Warren County

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Climate Change, Hudson River, Hudson River Valley, Lake Luzerne, Open Space Institute

The Hudson River’s Fortress of Shoddy in Troy

November 16, 2020 by Suzanne Spellen 4 Comments

1 Jackson Street by by Suzanne SpellenDriving north on I-787 approaching Troy you can see an iconic building – a tall red brick building with turrets that looks like a fortress.

It’s at 1 Jackson Street. What I like to call the Fortress of Shoddy. [Read more…] about The Hudson River’s Fortress of Shoddy in Troy

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Architecture, Hudson River, Industrial History, Labor History, Troy

Hudson River Dam History: The Big Hadley And Glen Dams

November 16, 2020 by Mike Prescott 3 Comments

Mike Prescott paddling One day as my wife and I and our dogs walked along River Road at Riparius on the Hudson River, my wife said to me in a folksy manner “just think all this water here, is on its way to New York City.”

It’s true the Hudson River has flowed out of the Adirondack Mountains for millennia, southward towards the Atlantic Ocean. And over the last two centuries or so there have been plans to dam the Upper Hudson for one reason or another. Most of those plans have dealt with using the water resources for some down state endeavor. [Read more…] about Hudson River Dam History: The Big Hadley And Glen Dams

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, New York City, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Dams, Environmental History, Glens Falls Feeder Canal, Hadley, Hudson River, Indian River, paddling, Political History, railroads, Schroon River, Verplanck Colvin, water quality

Poetry: Humpbacks of the Hudson

September 26, 2020 by George Cassidy Payne 1 Comment

Humpbacks of the Hudson

Before the finned
dinosaurs of the icy
depths were
disappointed by
the steamships
of men, they cast
their ballads into
the velvet abyss,
waiting as mothers
do with untamed hearts,
big as school buses.

Read More Poems From The New York Almanack HERE.

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts Tagged With: art, Hudson River, Poetry

A New Hudson River Historic Fiction: Tail Feather

August 27, 2020 by Editorial Staff 3 Comments

Tail Feather CoverBook purchases made through this link support New York Almanack’s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.

The new novel Tail Feather: Adventures of a Mohawk Paddler on the River-That-Flows-Two-Ways (2020) by Ray E. Phillips delivers the audience to turbulent times archaeologists call the “contact period,” the time of first encounters between indigenous people of the Americas and European explorers, traders, and settlers.

The story embraces a sweeping panorama off the Hudson River from Lake-Tear-of-the-Clouds in the Adirondacks the Manhattan Island. [Read more…] about A New Hudson River Historic Fiction: Tail Feather

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, History Tagged With: Books, Hudson River, Native American History

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