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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.!