I’ve been thinking for a long time about posting about this. I’m not sure which way to think about it, but it concerns me enough that I just want to get it out there for others to discuss. I found a fairly large artifact at my sister’s house a couple years ago in her landscaping rocks, and asked her how that could be. I asked her if the landscaping rocks may have been from a river, and she said it was sold as “river rock”. The rock was clearly sorted, and the artifact happened to have been some sort of flaked blade that was super thick, and would have been sorted along with the rest of similar sized rocks (3-4” oblong cobbles). A few weeks later, with eyes-peeled wide-open from that last experience, I saw something similar at a restaurant’s landscaping in Indianapolis. It reminded me of when I was a kid looking for arrowheads, and people told me to look in the road gravel that was brought in because it was mined from the local creeks and had “arrowheads”. A younger cousin of mine found one of those road arrowheads, and told me I should look in the road instead of in the fields.
I love rivers and creeks. As an outdoorsperson/canoer/fisherman who loves sharing the most beautiful natural gem close to most of our midwestern natural geographies (streams) with family and friends, it really bothers me that the most beautiful parts of these places (The gravel bars, and all of the natural biome attached to it) are permanently scavenged for some temporary landscaping that will get thrown in a dumpster within the next half century when that building is razed.
I want future generations to enjoy the same stream experiences as our generation, if we could ever get them to unplug and give it a looksee.
I love rivers and creeks. As an outdoorsperson/canoer/fisherman who loves sharing the most beautiful natural gem close to most of our midwestern natural geographies (streams) with family and friends, it really bothers me that the most beautiful parts of these places (The gravel bars, and all of the natural biome attached to it) are permanently scavenged for some temporary landscaping that will get thrown in a dumpster within the next half century when that building is razed.
I want future generations to enjoy the same stream experiences as our generation, if we could ever get them to unplug and give it a looksee.
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