Introduction
In this Bioregional Bundle, you will find a helpful Hudson Estuary map showing watersheds, forest communities and totem animals. Art Murphy’s powerful fossil photographs establish the presence of a deep prehuman past, often forgotten. George Tukel looks at how neighborhoods can become more self-reliant and convivial once they are located within bioregions. Carol Zaloom’s linocut prints and Mikhail Horowitz’s prose remind us of the eternal collision between the wild world and the built or cultivated world. Evan Pritchard, of the Micmac people, researches how Hudson Valley Native Americans, in the late 1600s and early 1700s, met basic needs in parallel to the European money economy.
Paint The City Green
Self-reliant and convivial neighborhoods located within bioregions.
Our Oldest Neighbor
The marine creatures of the Devonian period constitute our most ancient coinhabitants of the Hudson Valley, our oldest neighbors.
The Value of Trade Goods
A glimpse as to how Native Americans, in the Hudson Valley during the Colonial era, traded for necessities.
Intruder
A poem and image of how the human and the wild sometimes meet.
The Hudson Estuary as Bioregion
A map based on watershed consciousness and totem animals.