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General News: Hudson River Action Agenda
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August 12, 2006
Let’s band together and improve the Hudson River estuary in advance of the 2009 festivities that will mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s trip up the waterway – that’s the message of the recently re-issued action agenda asking organizations, towns and people all over the Hudson Valley to join in.
New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation issued the action agenda in order to focus people on the future of the mighty river. The agenda recognizes how far people have worked together for nearly 40 years to clean up the Hudson and urges people to see that subtle yet serious problems persist. The study says that difficult issues such as stormwater runoff, changing weather patterns, and chemicals still impact the Hudson and its major tributaries.
Next time you take a quiet walk along the river, you may want to think about some of the goals set to ensure that future generations will enjoy walking its shores.
Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda Goals 2005-200
In Celebration of the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial
1. Restore the signature fisheries of the estuary to their full potential, ensuring future generations the
opportunity to make a seasonal living from the Hudson’s bounty, and to fish for sport and consume their
catch without concern for their health.
2. Conserve, protect, and, where possible, enhance critical river and shoreline habitats to assure that the
life cycles of key species are supported for human enjoyment and to sustain a healthy ecosystem.
3. Conserve for future generations the rich diversity of plants, animals and habitats that are key to the
vitality, natural beauty and environmental quality of the Hudson River Valley.
4. Protect and restore the streams, their corridors, and the watersheds that replenish the estuary and
nourish its web of life —a system critical to the health and well-being of Hudson Valley residents and the
estuary.
5. Conserve key elements of the human, pastoral landscapes that define the character of the Hudson
River Valley and its setting of history and mystique.
6. Conserve the key features of the world-famous river scenery—the inspiration for the Hudson River
School of American painting and for the tales of Washington Irving—and provide new and enhanced
vistas where residents and visitors can enjoy Hudson River views.
7. Establish a regional system of access points and linkages so that every community along the Hudson
has at least one new or upgraded access point to the river for fishing, boating, swimming, hunting, hiking,
education, or river-watching.
8. Promote public understanding of the Hudson River, including the life it supports and its role in the
global ecosystem, and ensure that the public understands the challenges the Hudson River faces and how
they can be met.
9. Revitalize all the waterfronts of the valley so that the Hudson is once again the “front door” for river
communities, where scenery and natural habitats combine with economic and cultural opportunity, public
access, and lively “green ports” and harbors to sustain vital human population centers.
10. Ensure that the Hudson River will be swimmable from its source high in the Adirondack Mountains
all the way to New York City.
11. Remove or remediate pollutants and their sources so that all life stages of key species are viable, and
people can safely eat Hudson River fish, and so our harbors are free of the contaminants that constrain
their operation.
12. Track our progress and celebrate our successes!
To learn more about Moodna Creek and the Hudson:
History: www.cornwall-on-hudson.com/moodnahistory
Estuary Map: http://www.the-river-connection.com/paddlingplaces/info.plumpoint.php
Flora of the creek: http://www.nyflora.org/newsletters/newsletter_46.pdf
General profile of the creek: http://www.cwp.org/workshops/hudson/6Handout.pdf
Why preserve it? http://www.th-record.com/archive/2000/09/12/sullivan.htm
State regulation efforts: http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/hudson/hreagenda05.pdf
Biological assessment of the creek: http://unix2.nysed.gov/scandoclinks/ocm58564783.htm
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