The Mannahatta Project

Thursday August 23rd 2007
Filed Under Ecology 

The Wildlife Conservation Project is sponsoring an interesting study to recreate the ecology of Manhattan from 1609 when Henry Hudson first sailed into the area and then compare it to the current ecology.

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The Mannahatta Project will help us to understand, down to the level of one city block, where in Manhattan streams once flowed or where American Chestnuts may have grown, where black bears once marked territories, and where the Lenape fished and hunted. Most history books dispense of the pre-European history of New York in only a few pages. However, with new methods in geographic analysis and the help of a remarkable 18th-century map, we will discover a new aspect of New York culture, the environmental foundation of the city.



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