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LANDSCAPE OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVER Oswego DAVID HARP / CHESAPEAKE PHOTOS Florence Alder Creek Williamstown FALL BROOK Ava      from its headwaters in Parish 13 STATE FOREST PIXLEY FALLS S.P. Minetto Westdale Cooperstown, New York, its journey through the mountains HAMLIN Hastings 81 OAK ORCHARD BEACH S.P. BATTLE ISLAND 26 46 STATE MARINE LAKE ONTARIO FAIR HAVEN S.P. Camden BEACH STATE L Hinckley PARK 11 it Remsen along the West Branch, and its entry to the Chesapeake Bay in k Fulton t 274 Kendall e PARK Mallory le Reservoir e r BRADDOCK Delta Westernville andy C Fair Haven Lake S S BAY Reservoir Havre de Grace, Maryland, the mighty Susquehanna River has been Hamlin Neatahwanta O Hilton STATE PARK CHIMNEY Central Square Blossvale Barneveld s DELTA MAP KEY BLUFFS S.P. w LAKE S.P. BEECHWOOD S.P. 104A eg Sodus W Constantia the lifeblood of this fertile region for centuries. To travel its length is IRONDEQUOIT o 69 Federally protected area Albion BAY STATE Point o Cleveland l c Phoenix Rome 365 State protected area MARINE PARK 104 Sodus o 104 Wolcott t FRENCHMAN to take a colorful journey through endless forests, wilderness areas, Webster t O FORT STANWIX M Protected area Williamson n o Brockport C VERONA h Greece Irondequoit ISLAND S.P. eid N.M. a r a L w West Webster S ak BEACH e e k Other point of interest Spencerport o e S.P. and rolling farms; past ocks of migrating waterfowl and historic d k Oriskany LOCK 20 u Cato Seneca Baldwinsville Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail s STATE CANAL Rochester C Gates r PARK Susquehanna River Water Trail-West Branch e Otter Whitesboro towns; and along unique geologic features like water gaps through the Pen eld e Cross North Syracuse Brighton k Lake 90 490 Lake 0 5 10 15 20 Churchville Mattydale Yorkville Utica East Fairport STATUTE MILES Appalachian Mountains.  e river continues to be an important place Black Creek Onondaga OLD ERIE CANAL Oneida Bergen Rochester Clyde STATE HISTORIC 0 5 10 15 20 Elba 90 Lake Canastota C PARK KILOMETERS Henrietta Lyons l Syracuse y Jordan for commerce, recreation, and wildlife; however, it faces an uncertain d GREEN LAKES Clinton Palmyra e Fairmount STATE PARK ONEIDA Newark Weedsport CANASTOTA INDIAN Text by Joanna Ogburn, Lynda Eisenberg, Emily Myron, 90 future riddled with challenges.  e Susquehanna drains more than reek CAZENOVIA RESERVATION Katherine Faull, and Joel Dunn. atka C MONTEZUMA CLARK STATE TRAILWAY O N.W.R. Manlius Batavia 390 RESERVATION S.P. Clayville Copyright © 2013 National Geographic Society 27,500 square miles, picking up pollutants and sediments from an area Le Roy Victor Black CHITTENANGO Munnsville Marcellus FALLS S.P. Caledonia H Manchester 90 Clifton Springs Lake o Cazenovia n Skaneateles ONONDAGA roughly the size of West Virginia and Delaware combined. e Phelps Waterville o Shortsville INDIAN Lake y e 20 Auburn RESERVATION Cazenovia SONNENBERG C Avon Seneca Falls k Morrisville r GARDENS AND MANSION e 20 To combat these ills and engage a growing population in the res- 20 enec a ld 20 e S e e e S.H.P. r Pompey i

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a C Skaneateles Lake GLIMMERGLASS Lake u u Otsego S.P. Geneseo ALT g Gorham Tully aims to create a shared vision for the river, focused on habitat restora- M i B Lake 20 DEANS COVE a Lake CONESUS a S i d CHARLES E. BAKER BOAT g Georgetown LAKE BOAT n DeRuyter S STATE FOREST Honeoye Rushville y ALT a LAUNCH Warsaw e 81 LAUNCH Aurora a tion and conservation; cultural heritage preservation and education; 20 n Lake l Earlville a u m

HONEOYE LAKE C n SAMPSON Perry Mount Morris o a LONG POINT n Moravia l BOAT LAUNCH S.P. t STATE PARK 11 Truxton l s g i Cooperstown recreational access; and economic development through tourism.  e S.P. C Silver Hemlock e e S BEAVER d Edmeston SILVER Canadice r W a e Little York MEADOW Sherburne a Lake Lake F e CUYLER n LAKE e Lake c BETTY & WILBUR k FILLMORE e HARRIET Ovid E HILL S.F. U hope is to create a lasting connection to the Susquehanna for those S.P. s GLEN S.P. DAVIS S.P. e I Penn Yan a Hartwick Groveland HOLLISTER L S.F. Silver Springs n K e SPENCER N Locke

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Springwater STATE RECREATION G E L Homer within the watershed, generating the conservation of its amazing Castile R L New Berlin LETCHWORTH AREA Naples Plymouth ARNOLD STATE PARK LODI POINT k LAKE S.F. 390 S.P. HUNTS GILBERT a e NEW MICHIGAN resources. k Cortland POND S.P. LAKE S.P. Milford Nunda KEUKA Groton e McGraw STATE FOREST e

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Dansville e k Trumansburg l TAUGHANNOCK a Norwich Laurens Arcade a F Cincinnatus Goodyear STONY BROOK FINGER FALLS S.P. Lake STATE PARK L Dundee LAKES NATIONAL ISLANDS IN THE SUSQUEHANNA, SOUTH OF THE CONOWINGO DAM Delevan Cohocton a McDonough ROBERT V. Jefferson DAVID HARP / CHESAPEAKE PHOTOS Hume k FOREST Cayuga Dryden Gilbertsville RIDDELL u Wayne Fillmore Heights Willet STATE PARK Canaseraga e ALLAN H. Oneonta

K Waneta TREMAN S.M.P. Oxford KEENEY SWAMP Ithaca Marathon East Meredith Machias Houghton STATE FOREST Lake Mount Upton Stamford Hammondsport Burdett Avoca ROBERT H. BUTTERMILK Otego e Lamoka FALLS S.P. ar Rushford TREMAN S.P. aw Lake Watkins Brooktondale Whitney l ALLEN o e Glen g D BULLY HILL Montour Cayuta Point n h LAKE S.F. Lake New eld ranc STATE FOREST SUGAR HILL Falls Lake hen a t B WATKINS C es STATE FOREST Unadilla W Franklinville Belfast Bath GLEN Odessa The boundaries of the Susquehanna watershed Greene Hornell STATE PARK Whitney Point Sidney BURT HILL 86 represent the traditional territory of Iroquoia, the ENTRANCE TO COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK STATE FOREST Bainbridge JOEL DUNN C sphere of infl uence of the Iroquois Nations, from 81 Savona a 11 y PHILLIPS CREEK Millport u before John Smith’s time through the colonial ta OIL SPRINGS STATE FOREST 86 CAMERON S.F. Cr period. A map of the Six Nations’ territory in the Afton INDIAN RESERVATION L C ee CHENANGO im oh Pine Valley k o VALLEY e c contact period would match up almost exactly Cuba t S.P. Friendship Belmont VANDERMARK K o MARK TWAIN S.P. i n STATE FOREST ln with the map you see here. Chenango 88 Cr Scio eek Bridge TURKEY Horseheads Breesport OQUAGA RIDGE S.F. Painted Post CREEK S.P. Andover Corning A U West Clarksville Greenwood 86 E Wellsville Gang Mills T Johnson City Binghamton PINNACLE Chem Owego Richburg u Elmira A Endicott Olean Woodhull STATE PARK n g 81 Windsor Bolivar TWO RIVERS 17 Vestal 11 Deposit Southport NEWTOWN L STATE PARK BATTLEFIELD Portville 15 Pine City RECREATION Conklin The Landscape Whitesville P STATE PARK AREA Hale Eddy Wellsburg Over time, plate tectonics and cities, including Harrisburg, the New York Waverly New York New York Pennsylvania Elkland Pennsylvania other environmental forces capital of Pennsylvania. Almost Genesee Osceola Lawrenceville Pennsylvania Sayre Great Bend created a diverse terrain, giving 25 percent of the watershed Shinglehouse Nelson Athens Lanesboro Eldred Knoxville Hallstead rise to rolling hills and valleys, remains in agricultural use and Harrison Valley Oakland r Susquehanna yo C eek the Appalachian Mountains, over 60 percent of the watershed wa N 220 Os Potter Brook S

Ulysses West eld Tioga u SALT SPRINGS glacier-formed moraines and is forested. Although many of s STATE PARK q u boulders, and the fl at highlands these tracts are incorporated into e New Milford Sabinsville h A East Smith eld a Thompson

of the Appalachian Plateau. The state forest reserves, much re- n Rome

Ulster n Le Raysville Montrose The Headwaters: An Inspiration landscape covering this terrain is mains in private ownership. Only Smethport a Port Allegany HILLS Mans eld The mighty Susquehanna begins amateur naturalist, Susan found a patchwork of forestlands and 27 percent, or 2.9 million acres, CREEK Sylvania MOUNT PISGAH 6 I S.P. at Otsego Lake, a beautiful nine- inspiration in the headwaters agricultural tracts, dotted with of the forests in the watershed Coudersport STATE PARK North Towanda Harford Roulette A DENTON HILL Troy South Montrose ll y mile-long lake named “Glim- and wrote Rural Hours, a collec-

river towns like Sunbury, Penn- are protected, making conserva- eg en STATE PARK 6 Towanda Wysox h 6 k

Crosby Covington e merglass” by the novelist of the tion of nature essays that has

sylvania, and Havre de Grace, tion an immediate priority. Sweden Valley Galeton e Wellsboro r H 11 Leatherstocking Tales, James come to be recognized as one LYMAN RUN C Union Dale Maryland, and several small COLTON POINT 15 STATE PARK Monroeton Hop Bottom k LEONARD HARRISON c Fenimore Cooper. Lying at the of the classics in that genre. Her PATTERSON S.P. STATE PARK o STATE PARK Powell n Blossburg n south end of the source waters, work encouraged Henry David Morris Run Le Roy Wyalusing a TIOGA h CHERRY C PINE CREEK 81 Forest City the village of Cooperstown, N.Y., Thoreau in his writing of Walden PROUTY PLACE S.P. k SPRINGS S.P. S.F. Arnot GORGE Canton Laceyville n ELK Germania NATURAL AREA Tu named after Cooper’s father, was or Life in the Woods, giving STATE Antrim Meshoppen Nicholson Vandling Austin 220 PARK a also home to James’s daughter, rise to generations of nature SIZERVILLE Grover Lake n STATE PARK New Albany 6 Carey n Simpson a Susan Fenimore Cooper, the true enthusiasts and conservationists ek A LACKAWANNA w e A view upriver in precolonial times would look much DEVIL’S ELBOW NATURAL AREA a r k STATE PARK c Carbondale nature writer in the family. An throughout the landscape. le C Roaring Branch a t different than today. Instead of large hydroelectric t L e Tunkhannock Lake May eld K dams, the river would be punctuated by numerous Winola Dushore ARCHBALD POTHOLE HAUDENOSAUNEE LEADERS ATTENDING DEDICATION EVENT CELEBRATING THE EXTENSION OF THE CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH Emporium man-made eel weirs—stone formations in a char- STATE PARK VARDEN CHESAPEAKE NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL UP THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER. SANDY POINT STATE PARK, MARYLAND L Ralston LOYALSOCK Clarks Summit CONSERVATION © WWW.HAWXHURST.COM SINNEMAHONING acteristic V-shape used to catch eels as they swam STATE AREA STATE Cross Fork Mildred Dickson City FOREST WORLDS END Olyphant PARK downstream. These formations are still visible along Loyalsock Creek STATE PARK Lake TUNDRA SWANS IN WINTER FLIGHT Noxen 476 Henry DAVID HARP / CHESAPEAKE PHOTOS the West Branch and main branch of the river. Dunmore A Scranton Eagles Laporte 84 ELK Mere 81 LITTLE Trout Run Taylor STATE FOREST KETTLE CREEK HYNER RUN Harveys Lake MILLER RUN PINE Old Forge STATE PARK S.P. NATURAL STATE 15 Harveys North Bend RICKETTS GLEN Lake Duryea AREA PARK Muncy Valley STATE FRANCES 380 Moscow Renovo PARK SLOCUM S.P. West Pittston P Hyner HYNER VIEW Sinnemahoning S.P. Huntsville Pittston UPPER PINE 220 Reservoir South Renovo BOTTOM S.P. Swoyersville Red Rock Forty Fort Picture Rocks Pikes Creek Reservoir Kingston Plains LACKAWANNA WYKOFF RUN squeh Montoursville STATE GOULDSBORO NATURAL AREA Su an Hughesville Plymouth FOREST P W ch na Wilkes-Barre STATE est Bran PARK PARKER DAM 220 SUSQUEHANNA South Williamsport a Jersey Shore SPRUCE SWAMP

S.P. n Muncy Nanticoke S.P. Benton Crystal NATURAL AREA TOBYHANNA n Avis Lake 476 a SPROUL 81 ARMY h Glen Lyon ue STATE Montgomery usq Shickshinny DEPOT A h S FOREST Francis E. nc 180 a Walter r Lock Haven 15 B Flemington Millville Pocono t Reservoir s 11 Lake e Karthaus RAVENSBURG S.P. NESCOPECK W Orviston L Pocono Mill Hall Watsontown STATE PARK e 80 Pines h

Blanchard JAKEY HOLLOW White i Berwick East Berwick g NATURAL AREA Haven h BALD EAGLE Nescopeck HICKORYS RUN STATE 80 STATE PARK Native History MCCALLS MILTON S.P. Milton Freeland Serving as an American Indian trade, exchanging beaver pelts Clear eld 80 PARK DAM S.P. Espy Lamar RAYMOND B. WINTER thoroughfare for thousands of and deer skins with the Europe- STATE PARK SAND BRIDGE 80 Bloomsburg 476 S.P. West Hazleton N Natural Abundance Winburne years, the Susquehanna River ans and various American Indian THE HOOK Lewisburg Large forested tracts, miles of cold water streams; and the east- k Danville Penn Forest e NATURAL AREA Hazleton LEHIGH Reservoir moved peoples up and down its tribes at the confl uence of the re Milesburg GORGE riparian landscape, and aquatic ern coyote and reintroduced elk C BLACK 15 11 Riverside 209 on Mifinburg I STATE Wild Creek length, connecting the Iroquois river’s North and West Branches. n MOSHANNON habitats support a rich diversity roam the forests. Waterfowl, rap- n STATE PARK k Bellefonte 99 PARK BELTZVILLE Reservoir a Philipsburg e Northumberland nations to the various peoples of In the 21st century, Haudeno- h re Millheim STATE PARK of life throughout the Susque- tors, and songbirds also abound s C 220 ek Creek o e re SHIKELLAMY S.P. hamokin Still Creek 322 gl s C S A hanna watershed. Reptiles and the Chesapeake and beyond. The saunee culture remains vibrant. M Penn Reservoir Jim Thorpe Beltzville as the Atlantic Flyway traverses Ea Sunbury ld Pleasant Gap Shamokin Lake Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, as The Haudenosaunee Environ- Osceola Mills a Reservoir amphibians like the map turtle the river corridor bringing tens B Mahanoy 81 Lansford Madera 220 POE VALLEY POE PADDY S.P. City Lehighton they are known as today, are a mental Task Force is working Houtzdale 322 STATE PARK ShenandoahT and the elusive spotted salaman- of thousands of tundra swans Selinsgrove Mount Carmel Palmerton league of six nations that came hard to bring attention to the Port Matilda Lemont Shamokin TUSCARORA der inhabit the many tributaries; and snow geese, bald eagles and Tamaqua L LOCUST S.P. together in the precolonial era to many environmental issues that State College Not even mountains can contain the mighty Trevorton e smallmouth bass swim the river, red-tailed hawks, and warblers, N Ashland LAKE h i form a powerful confederacy. The affect native communities and Susquehanna. Over millions of years, the river S.P. g while the brook trout grace the orioles, and tanagers to the area. 209 Slatington h Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, Ca- is guided by their environmental has cut through fi ve ridges of the Appalachian 99 PENN-ROOSEVELT S.P. U yuga, Tuscarora, and Oneida Na- philosophy “to harvest only what 220 Milroy Mountains north of Harrisburg, forming what are Saint Clair 476 PRINCE Herndon tions traversed the Susquehanna you can eat or use, consider the L WHIPPLE DAM now known as the “fi ve gaps.” While the exact Minersville GALLITZIN i 322 Pottsville Northampton Tyrone tt S.P. O STATE PARK l for reasons of warfare with the Seven Unborn Generations, and e process of their formation is unknown, they are a J Dalmatia CONOWINGO HYDROELECTRIC DAM, MARYLAND u GREENWOOD FURNACE Whitehall Catawba, or for transport and give thanks.” n Yeagertown unique and beautiful geological feature and have DAVID HARP / CHESAPEAKE PHOTOS ia STATE PARK Schuylkill Haven ta Tremont 22 Burnham been designated a “National Natural Landmark” by 11 M Bellwood LITTLE JUNIATA the National Park Service. 15 Allentown NATURAL AREA Belleville Lewistown IL Liverpool RA 22 78 Petersburg Mifintown 209 ENIC T 78 SC 22 22 Lykens L 522 N 81 Pine Grove NA Hamburg Juni a Elizabethville ATIO at N N Emmaus 22 Millersburg PALACHIA 322 SWATARA AP Kutztown Altoona A S.P. CANOE CREEK McVeytown Shoemakersville 222 476 STATE PARK Huntingdon DeHart Reservoir TUSCARORA I Newport Ontelaunee Lake Fleetwood a STATE LITTLE BUFFALO JOSEPH E.IBBERSON FORT KAYAKING NEAR FORT HUNTER PARK, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA t 78 ia FOREST S.P. CONSERVATION INDIANTOWN GAP SUSQUEHANNA GREENWAY PARTNERSHIP n AREA Hollidaysburg Raystown u H Temple Lake J New Bloom eld MEMORIAL LAKE S.P. 99 Duncannon FORT HUNTER 81 Laureldale Blue Marsh Green Lane Mount Union Loysville MANSION AND k re e Lake Reservoir C 11 PARK C Myerstown 220 herm BOYD BIG TREE 422 East Waterford S an 15 a 22 r Reading Cr PRESERVE Lebanon e a Roaring Spring e Marysville CONSERVATION t TROUGH CREEK Blain k wa Mount Penn Boyertown AREA S Wyomissing Martinsburg STATE PARK 522 FOWLERS Palmyra Shillington Claysburg A HOLLOW 81 Colonial Park 422 BIG SPRING STATE COLONEL Hershey 322 Middle Creek NOLDE FOREST S DENNING ENVIRONMENTAL ch y STATE FOREST PARK Reservoir u lki PICNIC AREA S.P. Harrisburg EDUCATION ll Pottstown Camp Hill 176 TUSCARORA 11 CENTER STATE Steelton 222 L Mechanicsburg FRENCH CREEK EVANSBURG Saxton FOREST New STATE WARRIORS Cumberland 76 STATE PARK Three Springs Carlisle 76 PARK PATH S.P. k ek Middletown 76 Robertsdale e re re C Ephrata Landscape of Power C 76 et 422 e n Newville a Dry Run gu i Creek Manheim og Wood a u low Breeches st Through hydroelectric facilities, carried by the Susquehanna. he g Yel ne A c o Elizabethtown o co d C Phoenixville the waters of the Susquehanna Dams make it diffi cult for fi sh o Newburg o n KINGS GAP 222 n o o C ENVIRONMENTAL Mount Holly Springs provide power for millions of species to reach their spawn- C 83 Mount Joy 322 EDUCATION New Holland h East Petersburg c CENTER people. According to the Susque- ing grounds and for boaters n GIFFORD PINCHOT a 81 Conewago MARSH CREEK r Pleasant STATE PARK Lake 76 202 hanna River Basin Commission, to traverse large portions of BUCHANAN B STATE PARK t s Hall 30 STATE FOREST e Shippensburg P 76 k Lancaster the 14 dams along the river the river. These structures also W LETTERKENNY e Abundant wildlife populations, diverse fi sheries, and Everett PINE GROVE FURNACE re 30 11 C Columbia ARMY STATE PARK 222 and its tributaries can generate retain sediment and nutrients, 522 s waterfowl migration corridors draw people to the Downingtown 30 k u Lake e COWANS GAP DEPOT r SAMUEL enough electricity to power two but have recently reached their Breezewood e o Susquehanna River each year. According to a 2011 r STATE PARK MICHAUX d S. LEWIS Clarke Millersville C Weigelstown o A Land for Adventure 15 STATE PARK million homes. Each of the dams carrying capacity. During acute STATE C West Chester g ek U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service survey, more than 4.5 mil- RIDLEY CREEK n e FOREST York More than 100 state forest areas, maps, brochures, and signposts. i r STATE PARK receives a 30- to 50-year license storm events, large amounts k C West York lion people engage in wildlife-associated recreation Bra P c n e Chambersburg Biglerville and state and local parks offer The river itself offers opportuni- i McConnellsburg d u y 202 Media for operating, and several of of sediment and nutrients are L 30 w g (fi shing, hunting, and/or wildlife watching). In CALEDONIA Spry i 322 opportunities for hiking, biking, ties for kayaking, canoeing, and Fort Loudon a Lake n e these facilities’ licenses are cur- forced over the dam causing 70 STATE PARK e h Pennsylvania alone, this led to $2.7 billion Fayetteville Red Lion Aldred C c 30 Dallastown photography, and wildlife watch- rafting on one of its many water o r rently up for renewal. Although widespread environmental BUCHANAN'S BIRTHPLACE c in expenditures. 1 e o 30 e ing. Look for bald eagles trails, such as the Captain John STATE PARK on Kennett Square k 202 necessary for our energy needs, damage to the Chesapeake, as 522 C New Oxford at Susquehanna State Park, Smith Chesapeake National His- 81 83 these facilities present an im- its natural resources are unable A Needmore Mercersburg Mont Alto MONT ALTO Gettysburg Muddy Run STATE PARK Reservoir cross-country ski at Arnold toric Trail and the Susquehanna GETTYSBURG Octoraro West Grove AUBURN BRANDYWINE pediment to wildlife, recreation, to absorb this sudden infl ux of NATIONAL SUSQUEHANNOCK Lake CREEK S.P. Hanover Lake Glen Rock HEIGHTS Lake State Forest, and hike the River Water Trail-West Branch. MILITARY STATE PARK PRESERVE and the nutrients and sediments sediment and nutrients. Greencastle PARK 15 Marburg Oxford BELLEVUE CODORUS S.P. Appalachian National Scenic Unfortunately, public access STATE PARK Conowingo S WILMINGTON Shrewsbury u WHITE CLAY Trail at Michaux State Forest. areas along the Susquehanna Waynesboro Reservoir s CREEK PRESERVE STATE PARKS Littlestown D q e u 222 40 e WHITE CLAY There is even a driving tour—the are limited and sorely needed r Pennsylvania e C h CREEK S.P. re Maryland Hancock 11 e a 1 Susquehanna River Birding and throughout the river corridor to k FORT TONOLOWAY Emmitsburg n STATE PARK Po n Newark Wildlife Trail—linking the re- reconnect the region’s communi- to a 68 m CATOCTIN CONOWINGO CANADA The Chesapeake Bay Watershed a Taneytown Manchester Prettyboy HYDROELECTRIC gion’s top birding spots through ties with this amazing resource. c MOUNTAIN Reservoir 95 GREEN RIDGE 40 Hagerstown DAM STATE Berkeley Springs PARK Parkton ROCKS 70 SOUTH STATE PARK SUNSET LAKE UNITED FOREST MOUNTAIN Where the Susquehanna meets the Chesapeake is a PALMER SMITH’S FALLS PRESERVE FORT FREDERICK 40 a Great S.P. CUNNINGHAM GUNPOWDER FALLS S.P. Elkton STATES n Cacapon STATE PARK Williamsport FALLS large, shallow area of underwater grasses known as S.P. SUSQUEHANNA LAKE ERIE n 522 70 North 301 a STATE the Susquehanna fl ats. The 20th century saw devas- Hereford STATE PARK h PARK East LUMS POND e ALT Perryville New York qu Falling Waters L STATE PARK s 40 tating declines in grasses and dependent i u t S t Havre de Grace GREENBRIER l Chesapeake waterfowl species due to pollution and severe 83 e Bel Air CANAL WASHINGTON S.P. 15 Gu 40 City np N.W.R. CACAPON MONUMENT weather; however, through natural and restoration ow 40 d SUSQUEHANNA RESORT S.P. S.P. er GAMBRILL processes, native grasses are recolonizing the fl ats, Cockeysville F N.W.R. k 81 ANTIETAM a e STATE GUNPOWDER FALLS l (Battery Island) ELK NECK e l r NATIONAL PARK leading to increases in waterfowl and Reisterstown STATE PARK s STATE SUSQUEHANNA PORTION OF CAPT. JOHN SMITH’S 1612 MAP, INCLUDING RENDERING OF SUSQUEHANNOCK INDIAN C Loch Raven 95 k Martinsburg BATTLEFIELD 1 PARK Middletown LIBRARY OF CONGRESS c largemouth bass. Reservoir a Susq Unger B u Shepherdstown h eh na Frederick 795 GROVE NECK c an Liberty Edgewood WILDLIFE Cecilton n n 11 GATHLAND 695 a Towson Maryland Delaware r o y Lake SANCTUARY . B p STATE PARK c Sa a a Parkville s safras W c c MONOCACY Mount Airy sco Pikesville o p G a ta n NATIONAL Pa

C Inwood 340 w o 301 West Virginia BATTLEFIELD y 83 Pennsylvania HARPERS M 70 n Galena Harpers Ferry 40 n 1 WATERSHED FERRY 695 s Virginia Brunswick F Capon Bridge NATIONAL PATAPSCO VALLEY a Essex ll Ranson HISTORICAL P STATE PARK s 522 PARK o Baltimore Charles Town t S 50 om P u PATUXENT RIVER at a u FORT MCHENRY Millington s c STATE PARK q 270 x N.M. & HISTORIC Chester e Ellicott City Dundalk u Hay eld n SHRINE HART-MILLER ISLAND e t NORTH STATE PARK h k APPALACHIAN NATIONAL 29 a e POINT S.P. e SCENIC TRAIL 15 CHESAPEAKE 695 Chestertown n r CORRIDOR LAND Triadelphia n C Sudlersville 81 & OHIO CANAL Woodleigh Winchester Reservoir a n PATUXENT 340 L N.H.P. o I A RIVER S.P. u R Y q T 95 e Gaithersburg p IC R Glen Burnie Sassafras

o A Rock Hall O N SENECA CREEK P Maryland 522 E c Rocky Gorge 97 o River C k FORT S STATE PARK 1 t P Leesburg Reservoir L C GEORGE G. SEVERN RUN Connection to the Bay o a B r m A r MEADE te t N e NATURAL ENVIRONMENT s u Chester R.

h O e Laurel e While the Susquehanna River and the a MATTHEW West Stephens City a I Rockville k AREA h c x 17 o T HENSON S.P. A PATUXENT C e 50 d Chesapeake Bay do not share a name, N A

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N n a t NATURAL AREA A reek Wheaton RESEARCH E they share an ancient past. The bay Washington, hen I C a SANDY POINT EASTERN NECK PRESERVE S H se c CENTER C o o N.W.R. D.C. 340 o Beaverdam s STATE PARK is actually an extension of the lower Delaware 81 A G t R 522 L Creek Res. Sterling i College 301 A a a Nanticoke R. Strasburg 66 P SKY MEADOWS Bethesda Park K Susquehanna; a valley that has been p John Smith’s Explorations P Po Annapolis A tom Silver 50 STATE PARK ac 95 P p Bowie 301 Chester 50 gradually fl ooded by the Atlantic Reston Spring 495 a 50 a After traveling the length of the produced impassable rapids. Middleburg 1 t 301 A h 17 u Ocean over the last 15,000 years. The a Chesapeake Bay in search of Smith’s Falls, as they are still 50 x Grasonville n WOLF TRAP NATIONAL PARK e 495 n Front Royal FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS n E Susquehanna remains the lifeblood o the Northwest Passage, Captain known today, was the farthest t ck Pocomoke R. 66 of the Chesapeake, pouring about 20 John Smith and his crew found 15 50 Arlington Washington, D.C. P north Smith traveled during his 522 Eastern Bay billion gallons of freshwater into the Y themselves on the Susquehanna voyages in the Chesapeake. In Marshall Falls Church or SEVEN BENDS SHENANDOAH RIVER 301 A bay each day. This makes up about half k 66 Suitland River in August 1608. There, 2012, the Captain John Smith STATE PARK RAYMOND R. “ANDY” Shady Side J GUEST, JR. S.P. Fairfax 395 295 JOINT BASE of all the freshwater entering the bay. a they met and traded with the Chesapeake National Historic 66 S m R MANASSAS ANDREWS Upper Marlboro es ap It provides crucial habitat for countless 340 p 17 29 N.B.P. 95 Susquehannocks, who have Trail was extended the length of a Gainesville Alexandria 495 NAVAL h ATLANTIC E SHENANDOAH a AIR FACILITY species of iconic bay wildlife, and carries been immortalized on Smith’s the Susquehanna River to com- n Lake Deale St. Michaels OCEAN NATIONAL PARK n C 15 95 ROSARYVILLE 29 Manassas sediments and nutrients from as far o e 1 k

famous map. Unfortunately, memorate Smith’s exploration d S.P. H 0 mi 50 c a e k r Manassas e ek north as New York State to the shores of r re Smith met an unlikely foe on the and the rich American Indian R Occoquan y C C Virginia 0 km 50

SHENANDOAH u a oni p C Warrenton n n Reservoir taw a Virginia. The fate of the bay rests heavily Susquehanna—a fall line that history in the region. WILDERNESS qu a FORT isca Mat co P Tilghman c on the fate of the Susquehanna. 211 O BELVOIR Chesapeake Beach

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