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By WILLIAM A. AGGAR | La Crosse
Like many, I am concerned that modern Americans are losing the vision of why our predecessors reserved much of the upper Mississippi River for conservation purposes.
I have become increasingly saddened by the growing intrusion of mechanized America into remote areas of the Mississippi refuge. Paddlers have been replaced first by increasingly powerful outboards with shearless pins, then by Go-Devils and Jet skis, and now by airboats.
Last summer, while canoeing with friends, we watched in horror as an airboat....
Here's the rest: http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/12/14/opinion/01letters14.txt
By WILLIAM A. AGGAR | La Crosse
Like many, I am concerned that modern Americans are losing the vision of why our predecessors reserved much of the upper Mississippi River for conservation purposes.
I have become increasingly saddened by the growing intrusion of mechanized America into remote areas of the Mississippi refuge. Paddlers have been replaced first by increasingly powerful outboards with shearless pins, then by Go-Devils and Jet skis, and now by airboats.
Last summer, while canoeing with friends, we watched in horror as an airboat....
Here's the rest: http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/12/14/opinion/01letters14.txt