Third Thursdays — Native Plants & the Waters of Friendship Heights

A talk for the Friendship Heights Alliance, June 20, 2024. Amanda Huron presents about the area’s native plants, and I discuss hydrologic history.

Slides

Slides from the talk (on this link: a viewable/downloadable PDF).

Organizations

• Little Falls Watershed Alliance
• Rock Creek Conservancy
• Potomac Riverkeeper
• Anacostia Riverkeeper and its water quality monitoring program (which covers the Potomac, Rock Creek, and the Anacostia)
• Chesapeake Bay Program

D.C. history, maps, and articles

• Uncovering the History of the District’s Buried Streams (an account of the past, present, and future of D.C.’s streams, produced for the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment)
• Washington, D.C.’s vanishing springs and waterways by Garnett P. Williams — the definitive survey of the District’s streams and springs
• The speaker’s Lost streams of Washington, D.C. pages and maps
• DCist/WAMU, 70% Of D.C.’s Streams Have Disappeared. Where Did They Go?
• Washington Post, The nation’s capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning

Beyond D.C.

• The NYBG Welikia project: “Have you ever wondered what New York was like before it was a city?”
• Ghost Rivers, a website, walking tour, and installation series that traces the course of Sumwalt Run through Baltimore
• Hidden Hydrology
• Lost Rivers walking tours of Toronto