Threatened H.V. Amphibians Emerge in Spring’s Vernal Pools
These days, it’s not easy being green — at least if you are a Hudson Valley amphibian. Frogs and salamanders both here and around the world are facing a true threat quartet: pollution, disease, invasive species and climate change. As...
#WildlifeLove: Rethinking the Humble Beaver
Beavers figured prominently in North America’s past — they were appreciated by Indigenous people for millennia, and are the main reason the Dutch chose the Hudson Valley to settle. Yet they could play an even bigger role in our future....
Recording Change One Photo at a Time
Environmental changes can move at a snail’s pace, making them costly to record and hard for the average person — and even scientists — to visualize. Now, Scenic Hudson has introduced an inexpensive but innovative feature in a handful of...
Go Spring Ephemeral-Spotting
The Valley may not host showy fields of tulips or bluebonnets. Yet for the hikers, painters, students, explorers, photographers and general observers among us, spring offers something compelling: a special crop of wildflowers that we can spot only for a...
Quiz: The Hudson Valley’s Indigenous Heritage
The region we call the Hudson Valley has a deep Indigenous heritage. Early Native American inhabitants of the valley — often referred to as the Lenape Tribe to the south and the Mohican Tribe to the north — are both...
Fresh Climate Solution Coming to the Valley: Greater Sustainability Ed
Late in summer 2018, a Swedish teen plopped down on a sidewalk by the seat of her nation’s government, bearing a handwritten sign that read “School Strike for Climate.” Greta Thunberg’s message was straightforward and shattering: What’s the point of...
N.Y. Farmers Explore Silvopasturing As Climate Solution
Some Northeastern farmers have begun carefully shifting back to an age-old land management technique. It’s one that relies on a combination long considered taboo in the U.S.: grazing animals and the woods. Silvopasture, or the practice of raising livestock on...
From a Troy Orphanage to a Pioneering Medical Career: Pathbreaker Dorothy Lavinia Brown
“Dreams can be made to come true,” said Dorothy Lavinia Brown, who achieved her aspirations by becoming the first African American female surgeon in the South, among other important accomplishments. While Brown spent her adult life in Tennessee, the Hudson...