Originally Posted By: Blast
Originally Posted By: dweste
Gibbons' book is set in a time and in places where the forager's take on land and in water is assumed clean. Was that just innocence or has our country changed that much?


The funny thing is the land is probably cleaner now than back when this book was written. The EPA didn't come into existence until 1970...

-Blast


I agree. My youth (and my last couple of weekends) was spent in the Mississippi bottomlands and in streams and hardwood uplands around it. The river is much cleaner now than it was then. I hate to give the government any credit though. I think that the nearly total loss of manufacturing to foreign lands is the main reason for less water pollution here.
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