12-590: Kershner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bruce Kershner , forest ecologist Irvin Kershner , American film director Isabel Kershner , British journalist Jason Kershner , pitcher for the Seattle Mariners Shannon Kershner , Presbyterian pastor Ted Kershner , American football coach at Glassboro State University [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
24-514: A first in the nation definition of an Old Growth Forest, compels indefinite protection on state land and encourages acquisition by the state where the definition is satisfied on private land. Since at least 2009, the Niagara Group of the Sierra Club [3] has presented the annual Bruce Kershner Award to an individual or individuals for their environmental activism. The award was "designed to honor
36-590: A person who has continued to fight tirelessly on behalf of an environmental issue in the way that Kershner fought for old growth forests." [4] Recipients have included: Niagara Gorge Niagara Gorge is an 11 km (6.8 mi) long canyon carved by the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border , between the U.S. state of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario . It begins at
48-752: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bruce Kershner Bruce S. Kershner (April 17, 1950 – February 16, 2007) was an environmentalist, author, high school biology teacher and forest ecologist. As a child he resided in Staten Island . Bruce Kershner obtained degrees from Binghamton University and the University of Connecticut . He most recently resided in Amherst with his wife Helene. He taught high school biology at John F. Kennedy High School in Cheektowaga, NY until 2005 where he established
60-757: The Niagara Gorge . He was working on a research study for legal proceedings associated with the Kortright Hills Community Association in Guelph , Ontario. Kershner died in February 2007, after battling esophageal cancer for a year and a half. Effective September 4, 2008, New York State Governor David Patterson signed into law the Bruce S. Kershner Old-growth Forest Preservation and Protection Act, an amendment to existing environmental law that establishes
72-867: The Sierra Club (Niagara Group) and the Adirondack Mountain Club , and 'Environmentalist of the Year in New York State' in 1996 from Environmental Advocates of New York. [2] Bruce Kershner was serving as the Conservation Chair for the Buffalo Audubon Society . Bruce Kershner led numerous ecological studies. These have included studies of the Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve , Zoar Valley , Staten Island, Allegany State Park , and
84-412: The surname Kershner . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kershner&oldid=931096361 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
96-534: The Environmental Club, exposing many of his students to the old grown forests he cared so much about. He was a renowned old growth forest authority, and has rediscovered almost 300 old growth forests in Eastern North America previously assumed lost. These include the second tallest hardwood forest in Eastern North America, outside of the southern Appalachians , New York State's oldest forest, and
108-466: The base of Niagara Falls and ends downriver at the edge of the geological formation known as the Niagara Escarpment near Queenston, Ontario , where the falls originated about 12,500 years ago. The position of the falls has receded upstream toward Lake Erie because of the falling waters' slow erosion of the riverbed's hard Lockport dolomite (a form of limestone that is the surface rock of
120-491: The escarpment), combined with rapid erosion of the relatively soft layers beneath it. This erosion has created the gorge. The force of the river current in the gorge is one of the most powerful in the world; because of the dangers this presents, kayaking the gorge has generally been prohibited. On multiple occasions, the rapids of the gorge have claimed the lives of people attempting to run them. However, on isolated occasions, world-class experts have been permitted to navigate
132-567: The largest assemblage of old growth (the Niagara River corridor). Kershner has published a dozen books including the Sierra Club Guide to Ancient Forests of the Northeast [1] and Secret Places: Scenic Treasures of Western New York and Southern Ontario . Bruce Kershner has won numerous awards for his environmental activism. These include 'Environmentalist of the Year' in 1987 and 1988 from
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#1732852280404144-639: The stretch. Tourists can traverse the rapids of the Niagara Gorge on commercial tours in rugged jetboats, which are based at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario , at Lewiston, New York , at Youngstown, New York , and in midsummer at Niagara Glen Nature Centre on the Niagara Parkway in Ontario. Matthew Webb , the first person to swim the English Channel , drowned trying to swim the rapids of the gorge as part of
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