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Article: A guardian for troubled waters.(Waterkeeper Alliance and waterways protection)
- Article from:
- Conservation Matters
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
- Author:
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As far back as I can remember, I was drawn to nature. My father brought us to some of the most beautiful and wildest places in America, to go mountaineering and whitewater rafting. He understood these were part of the public trust, a critical part of America's legacy--that the source of our values and our virtues and our character as a people was the American wilderness, and we had an obligation to protect it for the next generations.
If you look at the statements by my father and my uncle Jack, both of them were strong environmentalists. President Kennedy came down against his own Department of Agriculture to side with Rachel Carson when USDA and the Farm Bureau ...