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To: Ish who wrote (53824)	7/24/2000 9:41:34 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I think we're pretty lucky to have so many good creeks and rivers around here. I find that the creeks in the more remote parts of the Ottawa Valley are just fantastic. Lots of different water plants, birds, fish, turtles, frogs and vegetation along the banks. The water is generally fairly clear with minimal algae even late in the summer.... Farming up there is mostly mixed with some beef, and a lot of pasture land or oats and barley. Different story to the south and east of the city, and also up along one river up in the valley where there is a lot of monoculture farming... mainly corn or soybeans grown down there. The rivers in those areas are about as close to DEAD as you can get. Anywhere that the tile drain pipes come out of a river bank, you can count on all of the water plants and any riverbank vegetation being absent for a couple of hundred feet or more in either direction... just muddy river banks and a lot of silting into the water... probably the effects of broad-spectrum herbicides washing down through the drain tiles and then right out onto the riverbanks or directly into the water, killing everything they make contact with. Meanwhile, the algae is generally absolutely terrible... probably from nitrate run-off... and the fish tend to be mostly big carp... some of which can be a couple of feet long. No bass or other sport fish in those rivers.. no young fish...and absolutely no turtles. Also, the e.coli and coliform counts are usually right through the roof in those creeks... I've always been a great supporter of agriculture, but I'm sorry to say that IMHO, monoculture farming is just a blight on nature... highly destructive...