Hawthorne
Valley
Place-based
Education Resources
This web
page is meant as a tool for learning more about Hawthorne Valley and
its
surroundings. Over time, we hope to post various data sets and
descriptive
accounts regarding the Valley’s agricultural and commercial
activities, history,
weather, geology, and nature. For
starters, we’ll keep this very basic document collection
format. However, we
hope that over time we can develop introductory essays that help put
some of
this information in context. If you have problems accessing data or
want to add
data of your own, please contact Conrad
Vispo.
Below, we
have tried to categorize the files thematically. While terse, we hope
that this
structure is, at least, readily understandable. We hope to add themes
and files within themes as time goes on.
Water
Resources
- Summary
of 2005 water quality work done in the creeks of Hawthorne Valley
property by FEP, includes summary table. (944 Kb, pdf-format file)
- Summary
Table
from 2006 of measurements
done on the “Farm Creek” by FEP (the creek that
runs between the barn and the garden
fields. (15 Kb, Excel-format file)
- A
water-quality evaluation
based on stream invertebrates and prepared
by Kelly Nolan of Hudson Basin River Watch. (1,369 Kb, pdf-format file)
- A
draft document
prepared by the Farmscape
Ecology Program and exploring water quality
issues in the County. (156 Kb, pdf-format file)
- A summary
document describing the general results of a Farmscape
Ecology Program 2006 study of 90 ponds around
Columbia County (some of these ponds were on Hawthorne Valley). (9,639
Kb, pdf-format file)
- A
description and
summary of the water chemistry work done by John Cronin and the Spring
2007 sophmore class.
(44 Kb,
Word-format file)
- A
set of newspaper articles describing pond ecology around the County,
prepared by the Farmscape Ecology Program (1,500 Kb, pdf-format file)
- A
summary sheet
describing aspects of the chemistry and ecology of Hawthorne Valley
farm ponds based on work done by the Farmscape Ecology Program. (24 Kb,
pdf-format file) For more details on methods, see the FEP
pond report.
Geology
-
Nancy
Dill's summary of the history of the Elizaville Shale, the rock
formation found in many parts of Hawthorne Valley. (27 Kb, Word-format
file)
Current
and Historical Land Use
- A
nice
set of slides comparing current and historical views of Harlemville,
compiled by Mike Pewtherer. (24 Mb, Powerpoint-format file)
- A
description of the Columbia County land use history prepared by FEP.
(11,000 Kb, pdf-format file)
- A
narrative describing Hawthorne Valley Farm production and extent around
1850, assembled by Martin Holdrege and FEP. (link to a web page with
additional images)
