OMG, I’m so all over this. Since Keith and I bought our lil’ Love Shack up in the country, I’ve been obsessed with the trees, birds, flowers, creeks… Basically, the whole nature quotient. Then I find this AHMAZING site, The Mannahatta Project, where a bunch of scientists have created a computer model of what Manhattan was like 400 years ago before us peeps concreted it out! You can type in any address to see what it was like there… There’s hickory fields at Times Square and swamps in Wall Street. STUNNING. Obviously, Manhattan won’t be revisiting it’s youth any time soon, but the project’s creators hope it will help get people jived about preserving what nature we have left out there!!! OMG, I’m turning into a nature geek! Plant a tree, DO IT!
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I love this. So fascinating. Crazy to imagine how different things were in another time. Thx, babe!
comment by Keith — August 22, 2009Woah, that’s crazy. And so rad! Hopefully it will get people energized to keep the green. Though I am such a city girl, it’s always hard to leave behind my Twilight-status forest back home. I mean, hello, I live in the middle of the woods. I’ll fer sure be checking out the site and giving my imagination muscles a workout when I need a little taste of the country in the middle of New York! Thanks for sharing this, Chris! xoxo, Bee
comment by Bee — August 23, 2009The current issue of National Geographic just did a story on this topic, with detailed maps of what Manhattan was like in the 1600s, and how scientists speculate it looking today. It was really interesting!
comment by Jess — August 23, 2009