Since the Clean Air Act, acidity in Haystack Pond in Wilmington, Vt., has dropped tenfold, said biologist James H. Kellogg.
(Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)
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Since the Clean Air Act, acidity in Haystack Pond in Wilmington, Vt., has dropped tenfold, said biologist James H. Kellogg.
(Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)
James H. Kellogg hoists a canoe on his shoulders and hikes up a rough trail to Haystack Pond, cradled beneath a mountain peak. The Vermont biologist, snug in a life jacket labeled “acid lakes,’’ is on a mission to learn whether the harm humans do to the earth can be healed. (Full article: 2750 words)
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