Robert Brothers shared Thomas Doty’s photo.

NATURE RECOVERS — with a lots of help from her friends”Most of what’s visible in this photo is on the bottom of Bear Creek. I’ve lived here all my life and have never seen the creek this clear. On the first Earth Day, I participated in a Bear Creek Wade In to protest the badly polluted water. And now the salmon are coming back!” — Thomas Doty, re Bear Creek in Jackson County, southwest Oregon

Most of what’s visible in this photo is on the bottom of Bear Creek. I’ve lived here all my life and have never seen the creek this clear. On the first Earth Day, I participated in a Bear Creek Wade In to protest the badly polluted water. And now the salmon are coming back!

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