Evening Speaker Series: Discover the Eel

Location: The Cornwall Presbyterian Fellowship Hall, 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Suggested donation: $7. Come early for better seating! Refreshments will be available. Tuesday, February 12, 7:30p.m. Discover the Eel The Most Amazing Creature in your Neighborhood: Join Chris Bowser, Science Education Specialist with the NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program to uncover the dramatic journey of eel and its secrets of survival plus what we can do to help them. While some people recoil at the… Show more thought of a wriggling slimy eel, this fascinating fish travels thousands of miles yet may be found in your backyard creek, pond, or ditch. In their dramatic journey they are challenged by fishing, dams, habitat loss, parasites, even climate change. Citizen-scientists throughout the Hudson valley are uncovering the eel's secrets of survival, and what we can do to help them. Learn more from Chris Bowser, Science Education Specialist with the NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program.

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