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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY of the HUDSON RIVER

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MUH-HE-KUN-NE-TUK—the River That FlowsBothWays. Native Americans revered the river anddefined themselves by it for at least twelve millennia.Early European explorers and colonists renamedit many times: Mauritius; River of the Mountains;North River; Hudson River. It has been called America’sRhine. Those who have lived or traveled alongit, worked upon it, defended it, or simply beheld it,have valued this river out of all proportion to itsmeager 315 mile length. Others, too, who built onits shores, conducted commerce along it, transportedupon it, and expelled industrial and municipalwastes into it, also relied on the river. Over the yearsthe people who settled along it deforested its...
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