Comments on: Nature Nurturer of the Week http://into-nature.com/2008/06/30/nature-nurturer-of-the-week/ Don Corrigan - Environmental Journalist and Nature Writer Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:17:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://into-nature.com/2008/06/30/nature-nurturer-of-the-week/#comment-28 Anonymous Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:45:43 +0000 http://doncorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-28 Sounds like a good idea to try restoration. However, I find public land in the area that isn't well policed tends to end up with lots of unleashed dogs (sometimes biting hikers and bikers) and beer bottles tossed off the side of the trail. Sounds like a good idea to try restoration. However, I find public land in the area that isn’t well policed tends to end up with lots of unleashed dogs (sometimes biting hikers and bikers) and beer bottles tossed off the side of the trail.

]]> By: MO Stream Team AmeriCorps http://into-nature.com/2008/06/30/nature-nurturer-of-the-week/#comment-27 MO Stream Team AmeriCorps Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:45:46 +0000 http://doncorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-27 I love the title. It reminds me of Baruch Benedict de Spinoza's latin distinction of Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata: Nature nurturing and nature nurtured. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natura_naturans ) It takes many generations for nature to evolve someone who can care about the River des Peres. The EPA, in their 2007 suit against MSD said "upwards of an estimated 226 million gallons of untreated sewage are being discharged into receiving waters from an estimated 2,772 discharge events" annually. With so much fertilizer, there is no surprise that nature wants to turn the downstream portions of RdP into a verdant delta. I love the title. It reminds me of Baruch Benedict de Spinoza’s latin distinction of Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata: Nature nurturing and nature nurtured. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natura_naturans )

It takes many generations for nature to evolve someone who can care about the River des Peres. The EPA, in their 2007 suit against MSD said “upwards of an estimated 226 million gallons of untreated sewage are being discharged into receiving waters from an estimated 2,772 discharge events” annually.

With so much fertilizer, there is no surprise that nature wants to turn the downstream portions of RdP into a verdant delta.

]]> By: Christa Corrigan http://into-nature.com/2008/06/30/nature-nurturer-of-the-week/#comment-26 Christa Corrigan Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:33:15 +0000 http://doncorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-26 My dad has taken me biking this past week at Cliff Cave Park, Route 66 State Park and at the Jefferson Barracks Park. He has not taken me yet to the Des Peres Greenway Trail. I would like to know whether it is a good trail and whether you have to have a mountain bike, because I heard it is rough and you also have to get out on the street sometimes. So, can anybody give me a review of the trail? Where is the best place to park and get on it? What interesting places are there to stop and to sight see or to get some ice cream or a soda? My dad has taken me biking this past week at Cliff Cave
Park, Route 66 State Park and at the Jefferson Barracks
Park. He has not taken me yet to the Des Peres Greenway
Trail.
I would like to know whether it is a good trail and whether you have to have a mountain bike, because I heard it is rough and you also have to get out on the street sometimes.
So, can anybody give me a review of the trail?
Where is the best place to park and get on it? What interesting places are there to stop and to sight see or to get some ice cream or a soda?

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