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Countless examples show that disregarding the natural balance is self-destructive. Deforestation in Southeast Asia has let the rivers wash fertile topsoil down the drain, so to speak, destroying the land and the habitat of the indigenous human population that was supposed to benefit from the cleared space. The same...
Strip mining by private enterprises in the Appalachian mountains destroyed countless homes and polluted the rivers with waste. And on a more practical level, all studies pertaining to the cost-efficiency of business which follow Environmental Protection Agency regulations found that they save more than companies which don't. Face...
Finally, there's the open outdoors, the real "escape" that Wisconsin offers. Rivers and lakes, hiking trails and campgrounds are all over the place. Door County, though a bit commercialized now, still has cherry orchards and swimming holes.
Before the roaring Columbia River began to be tamed by dams 59 years ago, it teemed with 16 million wild salmon a year as it cut a 1,930-km (1,200-mile) swath from its headwaters in British Columbia to its mouth at Astoria, Ore. Today its streams and...
For bone-dry Southern California, the rains that began Feb. 5 at first provided a welcome respite from a six-year-long drought. But last week the storms suddenly became too much of a good thing. Fifteen inches has fallen, drowning cars, streets and houses under rivers of water. At...