THE PRE-URBAN WORLD WALKING TOUR AND TALK

Peter Joost, Eric Sanderson

DATE & TIME: November 18, 2006 / 10:30 am
LOCATION: St. Mark's Church, 2nd Ave and 10th Street
DESCRIPTION: Peter Joost, NYC Audubon Board member, and Eric Sanderson, Associate Director, Landscape Ecology, Wildlife Conservation Society, will co-lead a walk describing the pre-urban East Village with a focus on birds and their habitats, past and present. We will follow portions of the outline of Peter Stuyvesant's farm; discuss environmental changes that occurred between 1609 and the late 17th century as the result of Dutch colonial activity; look for any present day birds; and discuss historic and present day bird populations and their habitats

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