Re: [gardeners] OT: Living in the Woods
Kathy Kennedy (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:31:21 -0600
In the mid-60's a Park Ranger at Yellowstone recommended getting down on
our knees next to the little stream and drinking the clear water from our
cupped hands. I still remember that clear stream in the woods. My folks
took us camping VERY young.
--Kathy K, mid-Missouri, heavy, icy snow on the ground; pavements melted
clear.
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Margaret wrote:
When I was a child, a thousand years ago, I was
> >always told it was safe to drink out of a free-flowing mountain stream.
> >Not any more. Margaret L
>
Lucinda replied:
> That was the case in my childhood as well, even at Girl Scout/Guides
camp;
> I can remember drinking out of mountain streams, lovely tasting
> water....and that's only 40-50 years ago. I'm not as aged as Margaret.
:)
>
> Lucinda