Monthly Archives: April 2013

1988 was a good year to be a swamp. That year President Bush enacted a policy that there should be no net loss of wetlands in the United States. He recognized the importance of healthy wetlands in ensuring a clean water supply, habitat for threatened species, and neutralizing toxins. Water is essential to all life, […]

I originally wrote this some two years ago. Its on this blog somewhere. I rewrote it recently for a class. http://blog.riley.rackliffe.org/?p=427 April 2013 I don’t like dogs very much. I was raised by a fantastic cat (and rabbits and parrots and fish and quail and hamsters and frogs and geckos and a houseful of spiders […]