From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial
waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006
agreement that laid out plans for General Electric to clean up the
PCBs it pumped into the river named after Hudson, this work offers
a sweeping environmental history of New York State. David Stradling
shows how New York's varied landscape and abundant natural
resources have played a fundamental role in shaping the state's
culture and economy. Simultaneously, he underscores the extent to
which New Yorkers have, through such projects as the excavation of
the Erie Canal and the construction of highways and reservoir
systems, changed the landscape of their state.
Surveying all of New York State since first contact between
Europeans and the region's indigenous inhabitants, Stradling finds
within its borders an amazing array of environmental features, such
as Niagara Falls; human intervention through agriculture,
urbanization, and industrialization; and symbols, such as Storm
King Mountain, that effectively define the New York identity.
Stradling demonstrates that the history of the state can be
charted by means of epochs that represent stages in the development
and redefinition of our relationship to our natural surroundings
and the built environment; New York State has gone through cycles
of deforestation and reforestation, habitat destruction and
restoration that track shifts in population distribution, public
policy, and the economy. Understanding these patterns, their
history, and their future prospects is essential to comprehending
the Empire State in all its complexity.
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