INDIGENOUS EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series: Forests of Pre-Settlement Lake Champlain Basin. April 7, 2009

Join Charlie Cogbill, Historic Forest Ecologist, as he addresses key questions: What would the landscape of pre-settlement Lake Champlain Basin look like and what how have human influences changed our natural communities? How did surveyors divide the earliest settler lots? What is a “witness tree?” ECHO will be open for free public viewing of our exhibit INDIGENOUS EXPRESSIONS: Native Peoples of the Lake Champlain Basin: 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.; Speaker: 4:30 – 5:15 p.m. Questions and Light refreshments: 5:15 – 6:00 p.m.

ECHO's Quadricentennial experience features archaeological and interactive exhibits, events, speakers, and a contemporary indigenous peoples’ Portrait Gallery, all celebrating the vibrant past and future of our Native neighbors. 1-877-ECHOFUN.