krista schlyer
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Anacostia River Web Series Launches Today
River of Resilience story map commemorates the Year of the Anacostia by exploring the history and restoration of a national river watershed.
Over the past four centuries the Anacostia River has been given many names: the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, the other national river, the dirtiest river in the nation, the forgotten river. But for millennia uncounted prior to European arrival, for every creature that lived within the watershed, this river was simply everything.
How does a river transform from essential to forgotten in a span of 400 years?
This question is one of many addressed in River of Resilience, a nine-chapter web story structured as a journey from the headwaters of the Anacostia in Sandy Spring, Maryland, to the confluence of the river with the Potomac in Washington DC. River of Resilience is a story of time and place, a visually-rich geographic narrative of a wounded but irrepressible watershed, a story of those who are working to heal this river community, and an entreaty to join them.
The project features the writing and photography of Krista Schlyer, a senior fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, and author of the forthcoming book River of Redemption: Almanac of Life on the Anacostia, due out fall 2018 from Texas A&M University Press.
The River of Resilience web story was created in partnership with Esri, creator of ArcGIS, using their story map platform Cascade, and data-driven maps created by the Esri story maps team. The project was funded by the District Department of Energy and Environment in collaboration with the Anacostia Waterfront Trust.
River of Resilience launches today, April 3, 2018, with new chapters released each week through May 29, 2018.
Join the Anacostia River journey here.
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I look forward to the next excursion along the Anacostia, I spent 25 years assembling elements of the healing process, trib by trib; and now the sewage is being diverted, the toxics will dissipate with time, the sediments are shifting to the sea. in another decade the river will be transformed, as will the souls who call Anacostia home!
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Reblogged this on swift110 and commented:
I am so happy so see talk about this river that has endured the onslaught of man for centuries.