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...Next day, plunging into an icy creek to bathe, I suddenly hear music running through my mind for the first time since I arrived. Taking my Melodica,a kind of keyboard mouth organ, I join the song of the bees while I bathe. Tonight I notice that the faces in the tree trunks no longer appear so grotesque. They even seem to be smiling. The more I give to this environment, the more I accept...
Before the advent of the snow machine, Joe used dog teams. But they were a problem. You had to feed them. Prior to statehood, which brought tight restrictions on fishing, Delia and a partner fed their dogs on salmon fished from the Skwentna River and Eight-Mile Creek. "We used to put fish nets in the rivers and cricks and get maybe 2,500 to 4,500 salmon, just to feed our teams. But then the state fish and game people stopped us from usin' the fish wheel. Then they stopped us from usin' nets, and then they...
Along Highways 41 and 287 to the mouth of Granite Creek there was a sprinkling of birds-no flocks-mostly blackbirds, but not a single small songster. I suppose if I had walked far enough into these grass- and sage-covered grounds, I would have found some, but always before (four years ago), they fairly swarmed here at the edge-so why go farther...
Most recently, a group of scientists from the Florida Institute of Technology built an $86,000 treatment plant at Fish-eating Creek in southern Florida. Radioactive cobalt irradiates the sewage without any danger of contamination...
...moved Interior Secretary Walter Hickel to plead with Congress to junk the law. Meantime, a district court judge has put a strict construction on the old law, allowing that it applies only to Old Washington and Georgetown. Thus kites may be flown freely without fear of arrest in Rock Creek Park, Mains Point and other neutral zones...