Tour and learn about watersheds
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- March
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A watershed is a basin, and all water falling within that basin makes its way downhill and into streams, creeks and rivers, which eventually enter the world’s oceans.
Watersheds can extend for miles beyond a river’s actual course and, like the river, also face threats from pollution and development.
Local watershed organizations work to highlight the problems and the solutions.
Take the Hackensack Riverkeeper, for example.
The Hackensack is a town down in “Jersey,� but it’s also a river that starts in Rockland, near the Clarkstown/Ramapo border. It provides drinking water to the county by filling the Lake Deforest reservoir, while also supplying many New Jersey communities. So what happens to the river in Rockland also has consequences for the Garden State.
The Hackensck Riverkeeper, a citizen-steward organization, continues to educate the public about the watershed and has just released its 2007 Eco-Program schedule of tours.
Forget about Hoffa and The Sopranos, a tour of the Meadowlands is perfectly safe, the Hackensack Riverkeeper assures us. You can float in a boat, or paddle a canoe or kayak. You can also opt for guided birding tours.
Log onto Hackensack Riverkeeper for more information.
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
Laura Incalcaterra covers the environment, open space and zoning and planning issues for The Journal News. A Boston College graduate, Laura grew up in Rockland, attended East Ramapo schools and has worked for The Journal News since 1993. Laura has written features and covered North Rockland, crime, government and a host of other issues.
Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
It isnt that safe. every other year or so, the marsh catches fire. usually from a spark from the passing train. i know i have experienced several.