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The Amicus Journal archives from September 1997
Happy 25th birthday, Clean Water Act-and many more.
September 22, 1997... Tony DiNovo remembers the bad years of the Lake Erie system, when dead fish were always washing up on the banks, creeks were full of soapsuds, and the Cuyahoga River caught fire. The Scioto River was unfishable for thirty miles after it...
Building (and greening) from scratch: Eritrea regroups after three decades of civil war. (east African nation)
September 22, 1997... There is a heavily potholed road that runs from Asmara, the lovely Italianate capital of Eritrea, to a town called Keren, which nestles in a dun-colored valley 40 miles to the northwest. Along this road, the visitor can view a kind of...
Sawdust memories. (pulp mill closes in Alaska's Tongass National Forest) (includes related article about pulp mill in Sitka, AK)
September 22, 1997... Last March, days before the local pulp mill closed its doors for good, the hostility that had divided residents of Ketchikan, Alaska, boiled over. In that final week, someone circulated a flyer announcing a "victory party" on the day the...
Gentle crusader: Maureen Fraser's rainforest battle. (Canadian rainforest in British Columbia)
September 22, 1997... Maureen Fraser rakes her fingers through her short, tight curls and leans forward, breaking into a grin. "Look what ies done!" she says, with feigned fervor. "It's transformed, radicalized the population!" A small, compact woman with an...
Letting nature shape childhood. (educational programs to connect students to nature)
September 22, 1997... In the late 1950s, Bill Bigelow ran riot with his boyhood friends in the Tiburon hills near San Francisco. They dug underground forts, caught salamanders, rode cardboard sleds down grassy slopes, and named landmarks: a dense stand of...
Return of the native: salmon come back to the Guadalupe, but the river's future is uncertain. (Guadalupe River in San Jose, CA)
September 22, 1997... Come on! You can do it! just one more time! Yeah, now just one more time! You can make it!" As a 40-inch chinook salmon leapt from a pool in the Guadalupe River toward a concrete overhang above, Roger Castillo's voice exploded with...
