Word: specht
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...Jerry Specht, EVANSTON...
...benefit the barge companies, not the farmers. And environmentalists are concerned that bigger locks will bring more barges, killing more fish with their propellers and filling more backwaters with silt. "It's amazing how clear the river water is in the winter when barge season is over," says Dan Specht, who grows 800 acres of soybeans in McGregor, Iowa, four miles from the river. "The muddy water hurts plants by putting silt on their leaves, and it hurts fish with silt on their eggs...