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Niagara Falls Gazette NIAGARA FALLS, N. T. 0. 35,250 SUN. 35,969 MAR 7 1976 Outdoor Scene By JOE OGNIBENE 1 THE HEARINGS ON KB dumping tathe congressman John LaKaice you want the Hudson River started lain Monday. Envffhn- Hudson River cleaned up, and cleaned up either mental Conservation CommlSioner Ogden Reid by, or at the expense of, GE. You elected them to has asked that General Electric stop discharging do your bidding end now is the time to inform PCB into the Hudson, take whatever actions are them of what you want done. If they, and otter needed to clean up the river and post a 12 million 'Sleeted officials across the state can't do it, then bond to assure the work is done. nett election time And someone who can. General Electric offered to reduce discharges Lei's switch to something more pleasant. of PCB to 3Mt ounces day. Now get this, they THE COYOTE B BACK, and In good num argued the state hasn't the authority to order the bers too. They pretty much established them river cleaned upl selves in the Adirondack* in the IMO's and are WHAT COLOSSAL NERVE, what un now spreading through the Southern Tier mitigated gall, what an affront to laws of counties. decency and humanity GE has shown with this First off, let's establish one fact, coyote are attitude. How dare they attempt to hinder a no threat toour deer herds. Yea, they do eat deer clean-up of what they have denied? How dare meat The deer they take ere the sick, winter they OFFER to reduce their poisoning of OUR starved, or those that have been ran to waters? Who gave them the right to render fish exhaustion by fun-loving snow-mobile drivers or dangerous to eat? packs of family dogs. when did the Hudson River become the sole Coyote don't run in packs, they are solitary property of GE? What divirie right was given to hunters and their main diet is rabbit rodents, them to determine the fate of a waterway that insects and fruit, of all things. Nature is doing belongs to eU the people? . her thing, trying to set right the prey-predator What is happening down on the Hudson can balance we humans have upset .. determine what happens to the Niagara, or Lake It should be nice to spot a coyote while oo a Ontario, or 18Mile Creek, or even a ditch leading deerstand next falL The sound of them walling in to any of them. the night is aorta eerie when you first hear it but If GE's claim that ENCON han't the power there b something elemental about it that Ate In to make them clean up their mots holds water, with hunting. then any of the Buffalo Avenue plants can do the I suppose a few will be shot by hunters same. What happens down there affects u* waiting tor a deer but that lint very sporting. THIS COLUMN SELDOM harps on the same Besides, the shot will spook any deer tint might subject two times in a row but, this Is one of the be getting dose. If you figure on going on a moat Important issues to come down the Pike in coyote hunt use a rifle, chances of getting does a long tune. U is a simple one: Are we to have with a shotgun are pretty slim. clean water or not? Be sure you do your hunting at the time of Will we allow Industry to have its' way with year a rifle is legal, not during the deer season. what belongs to all of us? How long w81 we allow Beet place to hunt for them during winter is near stalling tactics to impede the long overdue clean a corn Add or apple orchard. up of not only our waters, but strip mined land, Studies of droppings in Onondaga County air unfit to breathe at times and the Insidious showed these were the most Important food. contamination of the very food we eat? When will it be realised the air, water and land belongs to A FEW SMELThave been moving so the coho all the people, not Just a few selfish Interests? General Electric does not have the right to contaminate the Huadson anymore than the Core of Engineers has the rightlo dam It, though both should be too. A couple more weeks and Unit all hell breaks loose. Trout will open, smelt dipping will be in full swing, bullheads hitting at night, suckers dodging spears, fishermen fishing with might think they have. permission for a change at the reservoir and NOW THE STALLING starts. High, priced trolling off shore for coho and Chinook. lawyers will argue on obecure tactions of law, WeU, I gotta go now. The smelt net needs lobbyists will woo the political 1st kies of industry fixing, gotta put new. line on a couple reels, haul we stupidly elected and company public the boat out of storage, sharpen the spear points relations men will campaign to convict the world and convinoe the wife the bedrooms don't really the company la being picked on by ecofreaks need painting. Like 1 alwayssaid, "I would rather be fishing, WHAT CAN YOU DO? Simple, tell Senator thinking about painting, than painting, thinklfE Uoyd Pateripn, Aaaemblvmen John Daly and about fishing. MONS 037127