Rob C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Denkhaus, Robert" <DenkhaR_at_ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 9:51 PM
Subject: RE: NANFA-- ATTENTION OHIO NANFA!!
> Rob C. wrote:
>
> > Yeah.. I
> > ve seen that too, Moon.. it's a shame, isn't it?.. Well, this
> > stream isn't
> > like that, thank goodness, but if we see cans.. bottles and
> > such, it always
> > makes NANFA look good to the property owner to try and leave
> > it better than
> > we found it. At least in terms of aesthesics... We do what
> > we can. I would
> > just love, if ONE time, I could catch someone dumping crap in
> > a stream...
>
> The Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge is located along the West Fork of
the
> Trinity River. Every year we have 1-2 river clean-ups. During the past
ten
> or so years, we have removed around 6,000 tires plus untold amounts of
other
> trash from the river. It's pretty amazing and people are always
commenting on
> how clean the waters of the Refuge are. Unfortunately, the next big rain
> brings down a ton more crap.
>
> Regarding actually witnessing someone dumping in the water... I vividly
> remember an event of my youth where my brother (10 years older than me)
and I
> were spending the day at Lake Lewisville (in the Dallas-Fort Worth area).
We
> watched a guy standing waist deep off shore finish his beer and then toss
the
> bottle into the water. My brother, not known for his environmental ethic
but
> generally a thoughtful and good human being, waded out into the water to
> retrieve the bottle. The offending young lad was just heading back
towards
> his lady friend on shore when my brother heaved the bottle as hard as he
could
> at the offender's a$$. The bottle, which had managed to fill to about
half
> full before my brother picked it up, was a direct hit and the resulting
> "thump" resounded along the beach. The litterbug was knowcked off his
feet
> but jumped up quickly only to come face to face with my brother, a 250
pound
> body builder, who said, "You don't litter in my lake." He made the guy
clean
> up every bit of debris along a 100 yard stretch of beach. It was quite a
show
> and I was immensely proud of my brother.
>
> Rob Denkhaus
> Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
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