As I headed upstream from Lover\u2019s Leap toward the River Blackwater Beach, I noticed a change. There were fewer lifeless fish on the riverbed now, and the first signs of the living, dying, and desperate.<\/p>\n
I saw trout with clouded eyes, their bodies veiled in a milky-grey film. Some floated upside down near the surface, barely moving. Others rose from the bottom in spasms of effort, only to sink back down again, spent.<\/p>\n
These once beautiful creatures should have been freckled with vibrant red spots against sleek, silvery-brown bodies. They should have been darting through the current with speed, agility, and grace.<\/p>\n
Instead, I watched their sickness, their distress, their final moments. Grief weighed on me. Anger too at what was, almost certainly, the work of human negligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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