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The destruction of the Medicine Waters |
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These pictures were taken in Nov 2001
(during the Caretaker class).
The entire Medicine Waters area has over the years
been turned into a giant playground for ATVs, ORVs, dirt bikes, dune
buggies and monster trucks.
Here's a couple of pictures of a couple of their
"fun" circles, where they can drive at great speed around
the trees.
Notice the exposed tree roots, showing where the
level of the soil used to be.
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This embankment is about 4
feet high! |
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General desolation of the
entire area.
The Medicine Waters stream is in the distance. |
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Here's one of the gang,
showing off his stuff in a dune buggy. He drove back and forth,
round in a circle several times. |
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Looking away from the
Medicine Waters stream, there are larger patches of forest still
more or less intact. But these are diminishing rapidly.
The pace of destruction has accelerated over the
past year or two. Many previously unaffected areas of the forest now
have tire tracks through them. |
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Tom Brown Jr. at the Medicine
Waters telling the class about the extent of the destruction.
(To find out more about Tom Brown, read a short bio
of Tom Brown Jr. on this site.) |
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Is there any hope to bring
this area back to what it once was?? |
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The anguish of seeing a
once pristine area trashed and degraded, the ground torn up by the
off-road vehicles, trees cut down for party fires, and garbage
strewn about in the healing waters of the stream.
To find out more about Tom Brown, read a short bio
of Tom Brown Jr. on this site. |
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These photos were taken at
the Caretaker class in Nov 2001
Copyright © Walter Muma |
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