Native Americans

This stretch of river is popular for its smallmouth bass fishing. Muskies, walleye, panfish, catfish, and carp are also prevalent. Smallmouth bass fishing is "catch and immediate release" only. Over twenty species of ducks, geese, and loons use the river to rest and feed during late winter and early spring migration. Common merganser, hooded merganser, and mallard are common sightings. In the spring herons and egrets appear in shallow backwaters and use the protected islands as safe nesting sites. Rich, tree-lined river edges and islands provide important greenspace for flycatchers, thrushes, vireos, warblers, orioles, and tanagers. During the summer kingfishers, cormorants, ring-billed gulls, Canada geese, and tree swallows are widespread.

Running 444 miles from Otsego Lake, Cooperstown, New York, to Havre de Grace, Maryland, the Susquehanna River is the 16th largest, and the longest, non-navigable river in the country. It empties into the Chesapeake Bay, providing half of its freshwater inflow. Every minute it pours 19 million gallons of water into the Bay. The river drains 27,500 square miles of countryside including nearly half of the land area of Pennsylvania. It is one of the oldest rivers in the world - between 30 and 300 million years old - and one of the few rivers that cuts directly through the mountains. It can cut about one meter of bedrock per 1000 years.