#8-3 HUMAN IMPACTS

I spent this last weekend out on the river and the destruction that humans are having on the environment is unbelievable. There was garbage everywhere, on the shore, in the water and hanging from trees. People are dumping their sewers into the river even though it is not allowed. There is so much new construction going on around the levies and they have cut down trees and that is taking away from the natural environment that animals need to live. People were fishing and instead of throwing back the fish that were to small they would toss them into the rocks on the bank. Do they not realize that those are the fish they will be catching next year??? There are signs of human impact everywhere down there and I have spent alot of time on the river over the years and never thought of it like this however since this class it has made me so much more aware and it is devastating to me.