Formerly known as Partners for Climate Action Hudson Valley, The Understory supports locally led efforts to care for the region’s communities and ecosystems. Its new Hudson Estuary Resilience Effort, or H.E.R.E., brings together practitioner networks, a $4 million grant program, and a print journal devoted to exploring the people, species, history, and possible futures of the Hudson Valley. Photo: Ben StechschulteThe Hudson Valley, he argues, is not especially well prepared. Its role is to help the people already caring for the Hudson Valley coordinate their knowledge, resources, and efforts. The Understory’s wager is that organizing around those shared needs can help the people caring for the Hudson Valley build its future.