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Location: Athens, Ohio | I just wanted to wish my fellow fishers a happy Earth Day. I recall the first one, I was a junior in high school and we did a 5 mile trash pickup march. Now, I work for the state's EPA. This is from a message from our agency director:
Earth Day 2008
“My primary objective in planning Earth Day was to show the political leadership of the Nation that there was broad and deep support for the environmental movement. While I was confident that a nationwide peaceful demonstration of concern would be impressive, I was not quite prepared for the overwhelming response that occurred on that day. Two thousand colleges and universities, ten thousand high schools and grade schools, and several thousand communities in all, more than twenty million Americans participated in one of the most exciting and significant grassroots efforts in the history of this country. Earth Day 1970 made it clear that we could summon the public support, the energy, and commitment to save our environment. And while the struggle is far from over, we have made substantial progress…” (Former Senator Gaylord Nelson, who proposed the first Earth Day in 1970.)
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I was a senior in High School in 1970, and expected to be drafted with a fair certainty I was going to war. My favorite bass fishing water was polluted, urban sprawl was a mess and badly planned, and huge areas of habitat were disappearing at a rate that was unprecedented.
I didn't become an environmentalist, but I did become a conservationist, and it was because of my personal convictions and the fact it was all of a sudden OK; in fact it was cool to express that view. It was Earth Day that made me a little bit activist, and it stuck. |
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| I was a freshmen in high school on the first earth day.
I helped organize a Milwaukee River cleanup under Capitol drive. The river was nasty - removed 55 gallon drums containing who knows what - I was sick for two weeks after.
That dead river is now alive with smallmouth, walleyes, panfish,sturgeon,(restocked at Grafton recently) and non-native salmon and trout . Every time I fish the river I think about what it looked like (and smelled like) in 1970. The river has come a long, long, long,way.
Happy Earth Day ...
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| it's good to hear some concerned and active voices in support of the natural world that makes our sport possible, it seems there are some amongst us who let their politics interfere with these greater priorities |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | It's my -admittedly limited - experience that fishermen in general and muskie fishers in particular are very conservation minded, no matter what their politics. Makes me glad to be a small part of it, 'specially seeing some of the work the Muskies Inc chapters do. m |
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| Well done, Mikie! |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Just as an example, the federal Environmental Protection Agency was created by President Nixon. m |
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