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...however, seems to have employed bacterial conversion better than Microbiologist James Whitlock of the Homestake Mining Co. He found a solution to the problems caused when the company dumped water laced with cyanide, which is used to leach gold out of ore, into South Dakota's Whitewood Creek. Whitlock examined waste-water samples until he found bacteria, grew them in the lab, then exposed them to higher and higher levels of cyanide and saved the survivors. He then installed these superbugs in a brand new $10 million water-treatment plant, putting billions of them on each of the 48 rotating...
...prize was $10, second $7.50 and third $5. Ernie Thompson, wearing a Chevrolet cap and leaning on a cane, got started off all right but then got lost in the convolution of his story. "My lie starts back in the spring of '37. I was down here on Rock Creek fishing a pretty good-size little hole." He saw a squirrel on a stump and then a bear swallowed the squirrel. Before it was all over he had caught a fish, which weighed about half a pound, that had swallowed a coon, which weighed 22 lbs. Ernie took second place...
...Underwood, favoring truth on the sidelines, took no part in the liars' competition. "I had to give up hunting two or three years ago," he explained. "Afraid I'd get hurt tramping around. I backed off a creek bank once. Don't know why I'm here to tell it today. My daddy was a country doctor from over in Franklin County. Did I just drift off again? Well, they tell me you get that way when...
...stream doctor's task involves more than dredging muck. Surgery for a silty waterway can mean adding rocks, moving boulders or placing trees in strategic places to shelter trout. It often requires rechanneling a creek to increase its flow so that water will once again ripple over rocks to provide enough oxygen. At Boise's River Run development, McIntyre dug pools and meandering bends into an existing brook and added rocks and Douglas fir logs to the riverbank. Now trout spawn in streams that flow between condominium town houses and $100,000 homesites...
...year before four employees left to form InterFluve in Bozeman in 1984. Another recent start-up, Jim Walsh's Stream Team in Longmont, Colo., has begun hooking big contracts like a six-year job Walsh has with the A Bar A guest ranch in southern Wyoming, rehabilitating a creek that flows into the North Platte River...