On the banks of the Susquehanna

I have the Susquehanna River flowing through my library.

The Susquehanna River in New York State
drains an area of 4528 square miles.

Around here that includes this school, corn crops, gas stations, state forest, Chobani’s yogurt factory, hunting cabins, the city of Oneonta, gravel pits, golf courses, treatment plants, ATV trails,… and your yard!

In fact, it would be accurate to say
it drains all the ecological decisions of the 461,950 people who live in the watershed;
all those people upstream of you, and
all those people downstream of you.
And you.

So you are connected to them;
just like every living thing around you
is connected to you and each other.

That’s ecology.

You are a life member
no matter where you live.

I have named as many feeder streams as I could between Nineveh and Oneonta.