Speaker: Doug Falkner

The Red Cedar River, like all rivers, has a natural history. Over the last 30,000 years (since late in the last Ice Age), its history has been one of both stability and dramatic change, a history that is recorded in the landforms and deposits of river-laid sediment found in its valley and the valleys through which it once flowed. The river we see today, while directly modified by people, is but a snapshot in time. What it will be in the future is largely conditioned on what it has been in the past.