Water

[Guest guest]

I have been watching water quality since a southern MN school made

international news when they found deformed frogs back in 1995. Most

scientists believe atrozine caused the problem. Some scientists think it

was caused by parasites. I got the best explanation from a public health

person at IATP. The atrozine hurts immunity and more parasites go to the

limb buds causing deformity. It also sounds like the frogs get something

like IBS. When they opened them up, found the frogs did not digest their

food and they also were eating things not natural for frogs.

Now there are even deformed frogs in the boundary waters and no state agency

even keeps track of it. The frogs on our farm are all healthy and I believe

it is because I let the beaver stay in the creek and put in a beaver

deceiver so they don't flood the culvert. Beaver wetlands create

biochemical changes that clean up atrazine and other chemicals. That will be

one of our projects to study in the new school. I'm doing my part to keep

the Mississippi clean with beaver.

I also bought a video from WCCO news a couple months ago to show the kids.

I want to make them aware that if they pollute the creek, it gets in the

watershed, then food chain and can travel the globe. Congress had just met

to talk about why the fish in the Mississippi have males laying eggs and

prozac in their brain. Then read in the January Parent magazine about little

boys getting breast development. This months issue has an article about

little girls getting periods. Is it connected? I don't know, but back in

1995 the children were concerned about frogs for the sake of the frogs, also

if it can happen to frogs, can it happen to us?

I had Jeff, the pool guy out to talk about our our current school and the

new one on well water.

Kathy