Carbon County has three state parks, acres of state game land, trout streams, lakes, wetlands, a fairly large river, an Environmental Center on Lentz Trail and a nature center at Lehigh Gap. What we don’t have is a county-wide environmental group working to preserve our environmental heritage.
I think we need one to act on new threats like the PennEast pipeline and loss of farmland and old threats like acid mine drainage. I know Carbon County is chock full of environmentalists, but we aren’t organized, and as individuals we don’t have much power. I’m thinking that next year I might just work on an organizational structure to give all of us tree huggers some real clout.
Great idea! I hope that all of the people can come together and form a strong group to preserve the environment before any more damage is done to it. Preserve it now before it is lost.
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