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September ,1998 Globe Creek Lie ?
Last week Aug. 25th I drove down to Maury Co. southeast of Columbia Tn. To check out the big fish kill reported on the news and in the paper. There’s not too many people I know that spends as much time in the woods, on the rivers, inside caves or on the oceans as me. What I’m trying to say is I didn't find where the dead fish were. I drove and walked over every creek that empties into the Duck River. I went to the heads, forks, confluence's and mouths of all of them. What I think from past experiences "Oh what are you doing here. How did you know about this " Whoever knew about the location wasn’t saying. You know when there are no pictures in the media…
May 1999 Mint grove at Butler’s Landing
The full moon was rising above Seven Sisters Bluff. The Cumberland river was flowing, swirling past the overhanging Kentucky coffeetrees. No noise except the crackling of a freshly built fire. The smell of springtime mint hung in the air so steady that you couldn’t breath in deep enough to capture the smell for eternity. This was Butler’s Landing. An ancient landing that has always been there. It was especially used during the Civil War. Overlooking the landing is Seven Sisters Bluff. Abraham Lincoln’s grandfather Hannaniah mined salt peter in the caverns in the early 1800’s. On one small spot jutting out into the river the mint covers the ground like potato vines. I don’t know if these were planted or just grew wild, but nonetheless it was a pleasant place to be among the mint, the moon, the river, and Seven Sisters Bluff.
November 1998 Wildlife in Prison For the past 14 years I have walked the familiar and not so familiar trails of Cockrill Bend. Along the deer trails and limestone bluffs, through the cane brakes overlooking the green Cumberland river I’ve seen kingfishers, red tail, sparrow and cooper hawks, buzzards, fox squirrels (ones with white ears and noses), beaver, numerous frogs, lizards, rattlesnakes, copperheads, salamanders or spring lizards of almost every color. There are owls, crows, and any Tennessee song bird you ever wanted to see or hear. There is a great blue heron hatchery with over thirty nesting sites. Located on the 500 acre "Cockrill Bend Wildlife Preserve" is the largest black walnut forest (walnut trees per acre) in Davidson Co. if not the state.
Over the years there have been things that are destroying this preserve. First there was the state prison, then came others prisons, Ford Glass Plant, Yellow Freight, Stouffer Chemical, Parman Oil and hundreds of others. Reaching down to the very fringes of the unspoiled last 500 acres is a company called Hardaway Construction and AAA Recycling. Of all businesses. They are digging huge holes and dumping trash. A bulldozer has pushed a gaping hole through the bank of a wet weather drain to the river. They have also poured concrete over construction debris and made this huge mound that is 50’ high. The wildlife before long will have no more room than a prisoner, but they didn’t do anything to deserve it!
November 1998 Hog Crap in Kentucky In Kentucky they seem to like to odorize the air with hog crap. They also like to saturate the ground with it too! There are ways not to intrude on anybody’s health. Back in the old days a farmer knew how much his land would support. There were known rules of how much land 10 pigs or 10 cows could be raised on. This rule would be used as to not destroy the food mast from over grazing or cause the land to erode causing the farmer to loose his land. He definitely didn’t want his water supply polluted. Now the rules are broken. You can’t overburden any piece of land with anything without it causing damage. When you put 10,000 hogs on 5 acres there is no place for the hog crap to go but into the glass of somebody’s water. |
