After the Ice Age, by Tom Lake

Life Returns to Orange County - Tom Lake, NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program Naturalist. Once upon a time a millennium ago, Orange County was a sheet of ice, just as it was the winter of 2011 -- only more so. The Ice Age created the landscape on which human settlement would occur. This talk will examine Orange County in the Late Pleistocene, from the end of the Ice Age through the arrival of the First Americans (ca. 15,000-10,000 years ago) through the material remains which still exist today.

Tom Lake works for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Hudson River Estuary Program as its Estuary Naturalist, where he shadows eagles, teaches the ecology of the estuary, and edits the Hudson River Almanac, a natural history journal now in its 18th year.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Ice Age
• Pleistocene
• Hudson River Estuary
• natural history
• Orange County NY