Very busy week this week. I'm preparing a presentation for a conference tomorrow and getting documents together for the financial audit that we do each year...So, anyways here are a couple of stories about bringing river systems back to life.
This is right out of our wheelhouse; This is exactly what we're working on: returning damaged systems back to the point that they are a pride of the community.
Seattle Times story on the opening of the Northgate Mall parking lot to restore a bit of Thornton Creek.
Here's a more dramatic story of river ruination and rebirth from Ohio's infamous Cuyahoga River. As the author explains the 1969 Cuyahoga River was small by historical standards - industrial rivers around the country regularly burst into larger fires throughout the period of the 1880s to 1950s.
“In the 1930s, when most people in Cleveland worked in factories, a fire on the river was considered just a nuisance,” he said. “By the ’60s, there was a hunger for symbols of humans’ insensitivity to the environment.”
That's amazing. Can you imagine a community where flaming rivers is just a regular fact of life? The positive side of this is that the work we have to do on the Hylebos, to restore our forests, wetlands and creek is so much easier. I don't believe the Hylebos has ever caught fire!
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