The Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program (AWSMP) is a joint effort between Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, the Ulster County Soil and Water Conservation District and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. These agencies work together on managing streams in the Ashokan Reservoir watershed. To learn more go to the AWSMP Website: www.ashokanstreams.org.
Excellent video, well done and super informative. As we went through and dissected and added up all the water sheds I was waiting to see if we mentioned a major one but seems to have missed it. What about the portal feeding the esopus in Shandaken? Probably puts put the most water into the esopus and the creeks dynamic changes big time from there down stream. It also means that the entire watershed in shoharie system is also connected to the esopus watershed. Maybe that's just a whole other can of worms or another video?...
Very good description and illustration. I had my topo atlas with magnifier at my side to follow along. I'm a bit surprised: no mention of Slide Mtn. Was it visible behind Winnisook Lake? I'll have to go back for another look.
Very informative! Thanks Amanda! This is a really well produced video with beautiful footage throughout. I loved how you included information about tributaries, flood plains, invasive plant species, imbrication, and turbidity. Great overview of the watershed!
That tree didn't ask to be abused like this...... The tree: "She came up to me, gently kissed my trunk, shoved her long rod into me, and stole my core innocence"
@Navigator 👽 I laughed soberly too hard at this. I justnmet some volunteers for the job that are just as enthusiastic as they are empty. But i use regular pipe dope or gray plumbers puddy for any grafting or limb replacement on my chinese elm bonsai thats coming on 18 years old. Wasnt sure if there is something the forest folks, smart kind ill add, use for coring samlpes. But after a recent and revelant conversation for my volunteers i have a rant.....I'm all for non-traditional meds that keep the VAs program of "shut'em up & drug'em up" away. But there are limits and I'm pretty sure a particular fungi didn't tell them that butane, same stuff they used to light and partake in their cheeching ritual, isn't the #1 cause of SADs in our aspen trees, and this is a true conversationi had with the indemic and great fully nomadic, Rainbow Child Commune here. Im still making sense of it and cant. But. I could be wrong, but the amount of hillbilly rituals in the aspens waay of over populated procreation/cloning/identically deficient would never be the cause of decline to the fungal equivalentof those thick yellow toenails like my papaw had. That was Smokey the Bear and anti wildfires concept that seriously needs to go kick off here in Colorado forests and BLM. 120 years ago, we averaged 20 to 30 individual trees/species/acre, which plains acreage dropped the number a bit. Now we're at well over 100 indv/species/acre and can't move cows across ranges without a road due to deadfall brought by pine beetles. Can't graze it because its not how it used to be, yet i always find bison remains, some with flint still in the bone so at least it was indemic populations feeding their families. Can't let folks cut the dead trees for heat to help fire mitigation. But also cannot let it burn, like it's done for eons, for reclamation and soil replenishment. Now we're introducing wolves again, which is awesome i thought, but timber wolves not the prarie wolves that were native here. Completely different genetically, hunting strategies, and sizes. Literally the size and genetic difference between a large coyote and a great Pyrenees sheep herders. For having the large, if not largest population of treehuggers, Hippies and yuppies. We also have the most common sense deficient and nonsensical population. This was before legal weed, now they are just dumb with a smile and bag of cheetahs. High altitude + lack of oxygen density at birth = lack of braincells. I should have moved back hoke to Louisiana and that's saying something about genetics and mentality.
The wood filler for me left some knarly scars, but ima buy some to try on some aspen graffiti. See if it'll save that portion of trunk. Thank you for your advice.
A 100 year flood does not have a 1% chance of occurring in any one year. It has 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any one year. This is an important difference when calculating risk.
Thanks for the video. Helped me figure out what a cross section was (considering purchasing land where I saw cross sections sticking out much past the 500 year flood plain and didn't know how to interpret them).
Very informative video - and the historical perspective was wonderful. I was upstate this weekend (came up from Forest Hills) and enjoyed just sitting by the Espous Creek and watching the water roll and the trees sway.. wrote a review too
Hey ASSHOLE, all you been doing is to speculate but no hard evidence, I am very interested what your family think about you and your colleagues is it safe to lived with this wackos, who doesn't even probed anything but speculations.
If you were so concerned about the stream let's start with the Rez and why there's no fish ladder from lower basin to upper basin kinda hard when water is low for spawning trout to even make there way to the stream let's address that issue
Bob Steuding was my English professor at Ulster County Community College in 1973-75. What a great instructor. I wrote him a letter a few years ago and he took the trouble to write back. He made a big impression on me as a freshman in college. I've taken over 100 college classes since and English 101 and 102 with Bob still rank as among the most memorable.
