Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
SKWC: Education/Outreach
Community Engagement in local history, local ecology, and international relations
Early Meetings
Saw Kill intern photos
Developing a name…
Early Meetings
T. O’Dowd
Developing a mission…
Early Meetings
River Chronicle article 2/14/16
Celebrating the Saw Kill
Celebrating the Saw Kill
AJ Davis painting? c. ?
Celebrating the Saw Kill
T. O’Dowd
Celebrating the Saw Kill
S. Imboden
Ruth Oja!
Celebrating the Saw Kill
Sarah Imboden! Micki Strawinski!
Celebrating the Saw Kill
Emily Majer, Robert McKeon, Eli Dueker, Claudine Klose, and…
Celebrating the Saw Kill
S. Imboden
The Saw Kill trail from Montgomery Place to the mouth of the Saw Kill…
Celebrating the Saw Kill
S. Imboden
The mouth of the Saw Kill
Celebrating the Saw Kill
T. O’Dowd
“What Makes a Cultural Landscape” talk by Scenic Hudson’s Senior Vice President Steve Rosenberg
Celebrating the Saw Kill
T. O’Dowd Ray Armater and Maryelisa Blundell (it was a rainy day but their smiles don’t show it!)
Celebrating the Saw Kill
T. O’Dowd
Eels and other Saw Kill life forms listen to historian David Schuyler speak about the history of Montgomery Place
Celebrating the Saw Kill
T. O’Dowd
Saw Kill Watershed Interns and friends!
Drone Footage
Thank you Vertical Lift Visuals!
Eel Monitoring
T. O’Dowd
Eel Monitoring
T. O’Dowd Laurie Husted, her son, and David Scott
Tree-Planting
T. O’Dowd
Jeremy Cherson (Bard MS and Riverkeeper employee)
Bard students, Bank employees, and friends! Red Hook Rec Park
Thanks Olivia!
Tree-Planting
Rose Hill Farm L. Husted
Tabling
T. Weymueller
Sheila and the beautiful SKWC maps and banner
Tabling
T. Weymueller
“SKWC Walk”
T. Weymueller
“SKWC Walk”
T. Weymueller
Taking measurements
“SKWC Walk”
T. Weymueller
Tierney, Hannah, Tom, Emma, Sheryl, Laurie, Sheila, …and several others!
Exchange with Astrakhan, Russia
Exchange with Astrakhan, Russia
Михаил Валов Astrakhan State University
Tom, Siira, Sammy ASTRACHAN (!!), and Emma
Exchange with Astrakhan, Russia
The Volga from the Astrakhan Kremlin clock tower
Exchange with Astrakhan, Russia
Our Russian friends Nastya, Rasheed, Nikita, Denis, Mikhail, and Mikhail
Day in the Life (of the Hudson River and the Saw Kill)
Christine, Sheila, Hannah, Emma P., Tierney, Sophie, Peregrine, Dan, and Tom’s shadow
T. O’Dowd
Day in the Life (of the Hudson River and the Saw Kill)
Red Hook High School teacher Debbie Beam and students
T. O’Dowd
Day in the Life (of the Hudson River and the Saw Kill)
Bard and Red Hook High School students compare watersheds: Hudson, Saw Kill, Volga
T. O’Dowd
Day in the Life (of the Hudson River and the Saw Kill)
T. O’Dowd Using a beach seine net to catch fish and other Saw Kill life
Day in the Life (of the Hudson River and the Saw Kill)
T. O’Dowd
Saw Kill life forms: crawdads, blue gills, darters….
Day in the Life (of the Hudson River and the Saw Kill)
T. O’Dowd
…and green frogs in the eel ladder!
Thanks for a great year!
• Next year’s activities:
– Eel monitoring!
– SKWC Walk Section #2
– Montgomery Place “Bio Blitz” ???
– More ecological restoration (trees for tribs)
– Day in the Life of the HR/SK (October)
– Hardscrabble Day, Chocolate Fest, Etc.!
