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The Lackawanna River Guide
Second Edition
A publication of the
Lackawanna River Corridor Association
This Guide is dedicated to the membership of
The Lackawanna River Corridor Association
whose support and commitment are helping to create a revitalized Lackawanna River.
(c)
2000This book is published by the
Lackawanna River Corridor Association
2006 North Main Avenue
Scranton, Pennsylvania 18508
This document was originally published with assistance provided by the Scranton Area Foundation in 1994.
by Bernard McGurl
Executive Director, Lackawanna River Corridor Association
with contributions by:
Daniel Townsend, Ph.D., Flora & Fauna
Len Gorney and James Misiura, FishingDominic Totaro, S.J., Canoeing
Jack McDonough, Editorial Assistance
Pamela Lomax, Proofreading
Deilsie Heath Kulesa, Typesetting
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I The Valley and the River
Chapter II The Lackawanna River Corridor Association
Acknowledgment
The work of the Lackawanna River Corridor Association is a collaborative effort. Hundreds
of individuals, families, small businesses, corporations, local, state, federal agencies, and other civic and conservation organizations are contributing
towards the restoration of the Lackawanna River. I particularly want to thank the membership of the LRCA and
the past and present members of the LRCA Board of Directors for the vision and energy they continue to provide. Bernard
McGurl, February 2000
LRCAOfficers
Thomas
Mclane - President
Patrick
Quinn - First Vice President
Leonard
Gorney - Second Vice President
Eileen
P. Macnamara - Treasurer
Edward
Shoener - Secretary
LRCA
Board Members
Elisabeth
Balise
Mark
Blauer
Cindy
Campbell
Sandi
Chestnut
Curt
Coccodrilli
Patrick
Cuff
Robert
Farrell
John
Gable
David
Gromelski
Joyce
Hatala
Gary
Kwiecinski
Angela
Lambert
Chris
Lavelle
Scott
Linde
Mildred
McLane
Todd
Millett
Michael
Morin
Kathleen
O'Hara
Joseph
Siconolfi
Matthew
Spott
Anne
Marie Stamford
Introduction
"The Lackawanna...takes its name from the
Indian tongue and signifies the meeting of two streams...once abounding in fish
of every variety, particularly known for its brook trout...gliding silently by
over the gravelly bars dancing in the sunshine... a river of the purest spring
water...along its banks, thick with hemlock, oak and pine were deer and
moose...among groves of rhododendron and laurel."
from
A History of The Lackawanna Valley, Dr. Horace Hollister, 1869
The Lackawanna River rises and flows through a
three-hundred fifty square mile watershed in four counties of Northeastern
Pennsylvania. The twenty-three municipalities in the watershed are home to
nearly one quarter of a million people.
This guide is written for the people of the
Lackawanna Valley: long time residents, newly arrived neighbors and visitors.
The Lackawanna River has a powerful and subtle relationship with us. This guide
will help to explore our relationship with the River and examine what the River
tells us and the rest of the world about that relationship.
The Lackawanna River Guide will help ask and answer
many questions. It will help us evaluate our stewardship of the River and its
watershed. It will help make the River a more familiar friend, a resource that
each reader can get to know through the seasons of life.
