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Letter: Humans make quite a mess, too
Ray Dutchik
Jul. 8, 2016 1:00 am
I was fishing Robbins Lake after the roundup of the Canada geese and indeed the geese make a mess.
I believe in always leaving nature better than one finds it. Here is what I found in picking up approximately 200 yards of shore line: 12 plastic water bottles, six pop containers, one very dirty diaper, four worm containers, eight plastic bags, six fast food containers, quite a few yards of fish lines, and one discarded broken fishing rod.
I thought, boy those geese are a mess, we need to get rid of them. But at least their droppings are organic and break down. Man is such a good steward of earth. Why can't the geese be like us?
Ray Dutchik
Cedar Rapids
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