By Edited by Robert E. Henshaw, forward by Frances Dunwell
Biologists, historians, and social scientists discover the reciprocal relationships among people and the Hudson River.
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4, this volume) argue that the most recent change is a shift to management intended to increase the abundance and size of piscivorous sportfish, which may well lead to altered abundances of other species. Concurrently, the nature of the available resources has affected how human society meets food demands or where and how they target harvest efforts. Thus, the twoway interaction between ecological attributes and human society has fed back and forth to change the components of the Hudson River ecosystem as well as the functioning of human society.
Feedbacks between cultural and natural processes can be seen with particular clarity in the Hudson Valley, where, for millennia and particularly for the last four hundred years, humans have intentionally and accidentally created changes in the watershed that have influenced the ecology of the valley, necessitating additional human interventions which attempt to correct problems created by the earlier cultural interventions. To understand the environmental history of the valley, it is necessary to study the natural environment; the geographical facts and climatic conditions that have A T A C O N F E R E N C E entitled State of the Hudson in the fall of 2009, it was clear that scholars studying the river and its valley as it is today clearly recognized the interrelations and feedback between natural and cultural processes.
