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A
major environmental debate took place in Wisconsin from the
1920s through the 1950s on river and stream water quality.
Conservation activists, local governments, and industries
struggled in political and regulatory debates to control pollution.
This article describes regulatory and social debates in northeast
Wisconsin's lover Fox River Valley in the period 1927-1949.
Originally
printed in
TRANSACTIONS Publication
(Volume 84)
Paul
Wozniak is research director for the Fox/Wolf Rivers Environmental
History Project, a non-profit group active in northeast Wisconsin
history since 1989. He is co-author--with Earth Day founder
Gaylord Nelson and environmental journalist Susan Campbell--
of "Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise" (Fall 2002 release
by University of Wisconsin Press.) |
