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From the
Woodstock Times
hudsonvalleyone.com
B
y the end of the 19th century, when the tanning industry had clear-cut hemlocks from
Catskills forests, and abandoned farms left big expanses of pasture, there were no wild
turkeys in the mountains, and deer had nearly disappeared. Runoff from bare mountain
slopes and pollution of creeks by the sludge from the tanneries, combined with over-
fishing, had driven the remaining Esopus Creek trout high into the headwaters.
Chuck Schwartz with fish killed
by fluctuations in the Shandaken
Portal releases in the 1970s.
by
Violet Snow
S
porting Clubs fought
to protect Hudson
Valley’s rivers and
streams throughout
the 20th Century.