There are several organizations that have been working for years to preserve 
the Jamestown settlement, among them the National Park Service and the 
Jamestown Historical Society.

Those concerned can consult their websites to see what is being done and can 
make suggestions directly to them.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Bonis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Jamestown likely to disappear


> This is NOT a genealogy list and yes, LET US talk about it cause it is
> History and this IS a History list.
>
> With or without climate change, the Jamestown settlement has been
> threatened by water and parts have been and are still under water.  What
> has been done to preserve Jamestown and what do the experts (the folks
> working at Jamestown who subscribe to this list) say about what can be
> preserved and protected?
>
> Pat Duncan wrote:
> > PLEASE!  Let's not start a discussion of this kind of conjecture on a
> > genealogy and history list.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jurretta Heckscher" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:32 AM
> > Subject: [VA-HIST] Jamestown likely to disappear
> >
> >
> >
> >> "Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American
> >> settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, as well as the Florida launch pad
> >> that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are
> >> predicting.  In about a century, some of the places that make America
> >> what it is may be slowly erased."  Those places also include North
> >> Carolina's Outer Banks.
> >>
> >> That's the horrifying conclusion outlined in an AP story on the
> >> probable impact of global climate change.
> >>
> >> You can read the entire story here:
> >>
> >> http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/24/rising.seas.ap/index.html
> >>
> >> I realize that this is a list dedicated to Virginia's history, not
> >> its current events.  But it's difficult to imagine anything that
> >> could have as much impact on the study of history as the literal mass
> >> disappearance of historical and archeological sites.
> >>
> >> Words fail me.   And though I dearly hope I am wrong, I see nothing
> >> in our nation's condition that suggests that we truly have the will
> >> to act to stop this catastrophe.
> >>
> >>
> >> --Jurretta Heckscher
> >>
> >>
>
>
> -- 
> Ray Bonis
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