Animals can't read warnings on chemicals

It is a good thing for our Daily Bee, for it has warned me not to water my vegetable garden on certain days because the water will be poisoned with chemicals (my shallow well is close to the river). We must also be thankful for the signs telling us not to go swimming so we would not be poisoned ourselves.

But as I drive along the lake and see the little ducks diving for their food and living in this "witches brew," it saddens me, for they cannot read signs. The fish also have no newspaper to tell them not to swim in the lake while this is going on.

Sad also was to see a young girl with a sign in the hot sun warning people to stop the pollution, but her efforts seem to be in vain. I believe that if she and all others around here who share her concern were to write letters to the national magazines like Popular Science, hunting and fishing ones, etc., warning people that our lake is now poisoned, the backlash would possibly stop it. I know that if I were considering vacationing or moving to a certain area and thought about being around a polluted lake, I would go somewhere else.

But wait a second … would that mean Bonner County and its roads would be less crowded? I might just get my pen out.

FRANK THIEME

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