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Environmental Action Update: April 2021

Environmental Action Update: April 2021 Indian Point, Regional and National Nuclear Decommissioning Advocacy:   3/30/21 Congressional Briefing: Toward an Evidence-Based Nuclear Energy Policy:  Approximately 350 congressional staff, elected officials, agencies and citizens attended this superb briefing.  Please contact Manna or Matt to help with follow up [...]

She Sailor Sea Stories: Former Captain Samantha Hick’s Musical Journey Through Clearwater

My Musical Journey Through Clearwater By Sam Heyman-Hicks, Former Sloop Clearwater Captain Songs from my early years as First Mate and later as Captain: "Ballad of the Fisherman" is an original by former Educator Sean Madden, but I also adored his version of a [...]

Clearwater Generations Collection

Head Buckets and Fish Tales

-Sara Linden-Brooks Ahoy, from the Mystic Whaler!  It’s quite bitter-sweet for me to announce that we are in our final week of the 2010 Clearwater season.  For the past ten weeks we have been growing as educators, shipmates, and most importantly friends.   We traveled from [...]

Clearwater’s Key to Hudson River Fishes- 3rd Edition Now Available

Clearwater's Key to Common Hudson River Fishes has been reprinted and is now available!  The new edition comes beautifully redesigned and printed on durable waterproof paper with more fish information.  The Clearwater Fish Key was created to identify the species of fish most likely to [...]

A Hudson Highland Sailor Returns Home

  - Phil Frandino, Mystc Whaler Educator I began my voyage of life at sea up the estuary of the river that flows both ways, sitting in a rowboat with my father. . . a seven-year-old, doin' some fishin' .  Not for food.  The water [...]

Messing about in Boats

- Julie Gilgoff, Mystic Whaler Education Intern " There is absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats"         - Kenneth Grahame, A Wind in the Willows   As a child, I got a post card with that quote written on [...]

A Call to Action- Protect Your Environment!

 Save Our Hudson River Fish The NY State Department of Environment Conservation (DEC) held  public hearings on Indian Point at Colonial Terrace in Cortlandt on July 20th.   NYS DEC held these hearings because Entergy is challenging the DEC's decision to deny a Water Quality Certificate (WQC) [...]

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