SOUTH COUNTY: Lecture explores impact of man on Delaware River

   Environmental historian and journalist Bruce Stutz will be the featured lecturer on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, in the Feinstone Conference Center on the campus of the David Library, 1201 River Road (Route 32), Washington Crossing, Pa.
   Mr. Stutz’s books include “Natural Lives, Modern Times, People and Places of the Delaware River,” an environmental history that connected the natural history of the longest undammed river on the East Coast to the civilization that grew up along its banks.
   His lecture, “Three Centuries of Earth Day on the Delaware River” will address human impacts on the river. Within 20 years of William Penn’s arrival in the late 1600s, Dutch, Swedish, and English colonists had irreversibly altered the nature of the Delaware River.
   Reservations are encouraged and can be made by calling 215-493-6776, ext. 100 or sending an email to [email protected].
   Mr. Stutz is a contributing editor to OnEarth, the magazine of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and to e360, the online environmental journal of the Yale School of Forestry. F
   This is the last in a series of three lectures on the cultural and environmental history of the Delaware River, co-sponsored by the Delaware River Greenway Partnership and the David Library of the American Revolution. For additional information see www.dlar.org.