Framing the Viewshed: The Video

On February 25, The Olana Partnership sponsored a panel discussion entitled Framing the Viewshed: A Bend in the River. Moderated by Dorothy Heyl, the discussion involved three major players in a pivotal environmental battle in the Hudson Valley--J. Winthrop Aldrich, Carl H. Petrich, and Richard Benas--and recounted the successful opposition to siting a nuclear power plant on the Hudson more than three decades ago, on the unprecedented grounds that the plant would do visual harm to the viewshed. That panel discussion was videotaped, and the first of four parts can now be seen on YouTube.