KEPO river survey

The Kahnawà:ke Environment Protection Office (KEPO) is  looking to engage the community in discussions about the St. Lawrence River. KEPO is seeking to plan for the future of the river by consulting about invaluable local knowledge. Benjamin Green Stacey is the Director of KEPO:

“Historical and contemporary, we want to understand how people are interacting with the river now, but also how people interacted with the river in the past and sort of bridging that gap, in terms of understandings of  the way things were, the way things are and the way things should be in the future: the way we want to see things in the future.”

Stacey says they will collaborate with The River Institute and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, in order to extend research on the health of the St. Lawrence River from Kingston to Lake St. Francis, encompassing areas further downstream