Resources

The .pdf documents below can be printed or downloaded to your computer’s hard drive. If your computer has an Internet connection, Web links in the documents will be active. If you do not have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it first in order to read the file. You may also view Academic Standards related to this DVD.

• Complete Swim for the River Study Guide (58 pages, illustrated) (4.4 MB)

• Complete Swim for the River Study Guide (50 pages, text only) (452 KB)

• Directory of Hudson River Environmental Organizations (304 KB)

Individual Articles from the Study Guide

• A BRIEF HISTORY — Four hundred years, from Henry Hudson to the Superfund Law (536 KB)
  
  
• ADIRONDACK PARK — Adirondack Park and the 19th century national parks movement (528 KB)
  
  
• DAMS  — Reasons for and against dams, on the Hudson and elsewhere (540 KB)  
  
  
• WATERPOWER AND THE MILL TOWN — How water power fueled industrial America (796 KB)
  
  
• HISTORY OF PCBS — The long battle over the most persistent pollutant (412 KB)
  
  
• THE LAW — Key environmental laws: Why they were enacted and what’s happened since (384 KB)
  
  
• THE ESTUARY— Biodiversity and alien species (404 KB)
  
  
• SEWAGE AND SPRAWL — New York City sewers and urban sprawl (616 KB)
  
  
• THINGS WE CAN DO — Getting involved (80 KB)