For the 85th anniversary celebration of Radio Kingston (!) we have a wonderful, wide ranging conservation with Emily Vail, the director of the Hudson River Watershed Alliance (HRWA). We move between hyper local topics in Kingston, like the historic Tannery Brook buried beneath Uptown, to broader projects and issues related to water quality, urban ecology and watershed health across the Hudson Valley and Catskills region!

Emily served for eight years as the Watershed Outreach Specialist for the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation’s Hudson River Estuary Program, in collaboration with the NYS Water Resources Institute at Cornell University. Her work has supported community-based watershed groups, municipalities, and other partners throughout the region to improve water quality in the Hudson Valley. She holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Vassar College and an MS in Natural Resources from Cornell University. Emily also directs the Uptown Lowdown vintage jazz dance troupe ;-).