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SEJ Tour attendees grab a photo by the Delaware River at Milford Beach. Photo by the DRBC.

The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) held its annual conference in Philadelphia, Pa., last week. This year hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, the conference brings together environmental journalists from across the nation and world for a week-long event featuring workshops, panel discussions, speaker sessions and opportunities for networking and collaboration. The main plenary was a Q&A with EPA Administrator Michael Regan. 

Also on the agenda were all-day tours and also local mini-excursions, offering attendees various ways to learn more about the history, diversity and the environmental challenges and opportunities faced in the Delaware River Basin.

DRBC communications staff were invited to participate in the conference. On Wednesday, April 3, DRBC’s Director of External Affairs and Communications Beth Brown was a panelist for the Policy at a Watershed Scale: Local Lessons, Collective Solutions track of the Beyond Extraction, Across Boundaries workshop. Brown discussed the unique makeup of the DRBC and how it works across political boundaries to manage, protect and improve water resources.

On April 4, Brown and Communications Specialist Kate Schmidt participated in the full-day tour of the Delaware Water Gap: Taken Land, Water Wars and an Uncertain Future. On the bus from Philly, DRBC staff introduced folks to the Delaware River Basin and the DRBC, sharing our history and our part of the Tocks Island story. Staff also discussed the DRBC’s role in the region today, especially in flow and drought management, protecting water quality and studying climate change.

Tocks Island was one of the first major projects planned…

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OSU partners with Native American tribes to explore making products and materials with hemp – OPB[]>> 0; // 3. If IsCallable(predicate) is false, throw a TypeError exception. if (typeof predicate !== ‘function’) { throw new TypeError(‘predicate must be a function’); } // 4. If thisArg was supplied, let T be thisArg; else let T be undefined. var thisArg = arguments[1]; // 5. Let k be 0. var k = 0; // 6. Repeat, while k < len while (k >> 0; // 4. If isCallable(callback) is false, throw a TypeError exception. // See: http://es5.github.com/#x9.11 if (typeof callback !== ‘function’) { throw new TypeError(callback + ‘ is not a function’); } // 5. If thisArg was supplied, let T be thisArg; else let // T be undefined. if (arguments.length > 1) { T = arguments[1]; } // 6. Let k be 0. k = 0; // 7. Repeat while k < len. while (k Math.pow(2,32)-1)throw new RangeError("Invalid array length");var n=[];return n.length=r,n}function Call(t,l){var n=arguments.length>2?arguments[2]:[];if(!1===IsCallable(t))throw new TypeError(Object.prototype.toString.call(t)+”is not a function.”);return t.apply(l,n)}function CreateDataProperty(e,r,t){var a={value:t,writable:!0,enumerable:!0,configurable:!0};try{return Object.defineProperty(e,r,a),!0}catch(n){return!1}}function CreateDataPropertyOrThrow(t,r,o){var e=CreateDataProperty(t,r,o);if(!e)throw new TypeError(“Cannot assign value `”+Object.prototype.toString.call(o)+”` to property `”+Object.prototype.toString.call(r)+”` on object `”+Object.prototype.toString.call(t)+”`”);return e}function CreateMethodProperty(e,r,t){var a={value:t,writable:!0,enumerable:!1,configurable:!0};Object.defineProperty(e,r,a)}function Get(n,t){return n[t]}function HasProperty(n,r){return r in n}function IsArray(r){return”[object Array]”===Object.prototype.toString.call(r)}function IsCallable(n){return”function”==typeof n}function RequireObjectCoercible(e){if(null===e||e===undefined)throw TypeError();return e}function ToBoolean(o){return Boolean(o)}function ToInteger(n){var i=Number(n);return isNaN(i)?0:1/i===Infinity||1/i==-Infinity||i===Infinity||i===-Infinity?i:(i<0?-1:1)*Math.floor(Math.abs(i))}function ToLength(n){var t=ToInteger(n);return t2?arguments[2]:r,o=arguments.length>1?arguments[1]:[];if(!IsConstructor(r))throw new TypeError(“F must be a constructor.”);if(!IsConstructor(t))throw new TypeError(“newTarget must be a constructor.”);if(t===r)return new(Function.prototype.bind.apply(r,[null].concat(o)));var n=OrdinaryCreateFromConstructor(t,Object.prototype);return Call(r,n,o)}function ArraySpeciesCreate(r,e){if(1/e==-Infinity&&(e=0),!1===IsArray(r))return…

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LAWRENCE — For the third consecutive year, the University of Kansas will be a host site for the Global Climate Teach-in. This year, events will highlight the research and connections of several campus departments and centers and well as community beyond campus.

Climate panel

Noon April 2

The Educate & Act Series will feature the topic of “Climate Feminism and Inclusive Leadership around Climate Change” with faculty, student and community panelists: Megan Kaminski, professor of English and environmental studies; artist Melissa Hilliard Potter; and post-baccalaureate research education program scholar Vic Secondine, citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians and president of the new Indigenous Stewardship Club.

The Educate & Act series is supported by The Commons, the Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity and the Center for Service Learning. Register online to attend the public event.

Zine Night

6 p.m. April 3

The Emily Taylor Center will host its Zine Night series in conjunction with the Climate Teach-in, centering the topic “Destroy the Patriarchy, Not the Planet.” During this session, participants are encouraged to create a 5.5-by-8.5-inch page exploring the relationship between environmental justice and feminism for inclusion in a comp zine. Free pizza will be served at this public event in the Burge Union, Forum B.  

Film screening

7 p.m. April 4

Prairie Hollow Productions will screen its new film, “Hot Times in the Heartland,” at Liberty Hall. The two-hour documentary features leading regional voices in the realm of climate change adaptation. The program has been produced by Dave Kendall, former host of “Sunflower Journeys,” along with Rex Buchanan, director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey, and Laura Mead, a local multimedia artist. The film includes Leigh Stearns, professor of geology, and Ward Lyles, associate professor of urban planning. Tickets are free but required for the public event; reserve them online.

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Kintzer said it was the first time in her nearly nine years at Lehigh that she was contacted about artifacts. Kintzer consulted two sociology and anthropology professors and spoke with Lehigh College of Health Dean Beth Dolan to decide the best option for the artifacts.

“If you don’t make a decision, the artifacts go to the Pennsylvania Museum of History. That felt a little too distanced or removed from what we were hoping to accomplish here,” Kintzer said. “I was worried they might end up in a drawer where someone forgets about them, versus being something that would be honored and used.”

Dolan suggested contacting Delaware Nation. University leaders signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Delaware Nation in October 2023, signaling an ongoing, reciprocal partnership. The agreement also enabled Delaware Nation to relocate an extension of their historic preservation office to Lehigh’s campus. At the time of the signing, Sean M. Daley, a faculty member with the College of Health who directs Lehigh’s Institute for Indigenous Studies (IIS), said he hopes the MOU will encourage Delaware Nation students to not only come to Lehigh to study, but to start a connection with their ancestral lands.

Dolan said the timing of the find was fortunate. Katelyn Lucas, Delaware Nation’s historic preservation officer, moved into her office at the IIS at the start of the Fall 2023 semester and was quickly able to handle the transfer of the artifacts to their rightful home.

“Honoring the history and culture of the Lenape people is a foundational goal of Lehigh’s MOU with the Delaware Nation, a goal that is further supported by the Institute for Indigenous Studies in the College of Health,” Dolan said.

Most of the artifacts found on Lehigh’s property are “pre-contact” artifacts, meaning they were made before European settlers…

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The statue depicting a likeness of Chief Tamanend, the Lenape leader who signed a peace treaty with William Penn, is pedestaled at a gaping I-95 entrance ramp in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Motorists zip by the statue at Front and Market Streets without a glance as they cruise out of town. Pedestrians risk oncomingtraffic just to get a glimpse of the bronze figure.

But a proposal to move the statue to a place of prominence to a new Tamanend Square being planned as part of a revamp of Market Street in Old City appears stalled as at least one federally designated tribe objects.

The objection by the tribe takes on new relevance in light of the recent dustup involving now-scrapped plans to move the statue of William Penn from Welcome Park, which is located a few blocks away and part of Independence National Historical Park. The National Park Service is proposing to rehabilitate Welcome Park and include Native American history.

» READ MORE: William Penn statue will not be removed from Welcome Park, says National Park Service in sudden reversal

‘Tired of moving’

“After 300-plus years of forced removal, it just seems as if it’s just another metaphoric forced removal from an area of our own land,” said Jeremy Johnson, cultural education director of the federally recognizedDelaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, Okla.

The tribe viewed treaties and land sales that the Lenape signed with European colonists more like leases, unaware that land was something to be bought or sold. Eventually, the Lenape had no land left and moved west, eventually settling in Oklahoma.

“We’re tired of moving,” Johnson said. “We’ve been told multiple times in our history that we’re in the way of progress.”

The statue, by Raymond Sandoval and erected in 1995,depicts Tamanend standing on a…

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