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| | Thoreau's Dream - March/April 1999 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club |
 | | Until 1976 the public couldn't use rivers like the upper Kennebec because they were reserved for the paper industry as conduits to get logs to downriver mills, and it couldn't use the lower rivers either because effluent from the mills rendered the water a health hazard. |
 | | At Indian Pond, where the scouts and I hauled out, and again at West Forks, where the river falls and spreads from a brawling run, the logs used to be corralled by booms in huge rafts that covered nearly every surface acre for the 35 miles to Solon. |
 | | Protected would be the headwaters of six major rivers, including the Allagash, most of Moosehead Lake, hundreds of other lakes and ponds, and the hundred wildest miles of the Appalachian Trail. |
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