cover image The Mightier Hudson: 
The Spirited Revival of a Treasured Landscape

The Mightier Hudson: The Spirited Revival of a Treasured Landscape

Roger D. Stone. Globe Pequot/Lyons, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7627-6395-5

Environmental journalist Stone (Dreams of Amazonia) presents diverse aspects of how the Hudson Valley recovered its soul, from conservation efforts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the rise of organizations like Riverkeeper, a driving force in cleaning up pollutants from the Hudson’s industrial legacy. Stone also examines the aqueduct systems that supply New York City with clean drinking water and tackles the impact of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). (May)