Search the Bay Journal site: Sick smallmouth bass spur effort to seek impaired status for Susquehanna

 See attached for an article in the June issue of the Chesapeake Bay Journal on sick and dying smallmouth bass in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River, and the failure of State or EPA scientists to identify the causes, dating back for eight years or longer, or even to provide the river with an "impaired" deesignation that would make its cleanup a priority.

While the problem is evident mainly in the State of Pennsylvania, the same skin lesions and depleted SM bass populations could very well extend their effects to fish in New York's headwaters sections of the Susquehanna River. As the article mentions, the Susquehanna River has long been at the heart of Pennsylvania's smallmouth bass fishing, and that same SM bass fishery has had a reputation as being one of the finest in the nation.


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At The Warehouse, alternatives to I-81: Getting into the 'yes business' | syracuse.com

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I called Baldassarre a few years ago. I wanted to get his reaction after more than 20 bald eagles showed up to winter on the shoreline of Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. The startling arrival of so many eagles gave this community a population of the great birds exceeded by only a handful of large cities in the nation. To Baldassarre, it was as if an extraordinary gift had been awarded to Central New York; Americans who'd never seen a bald eagle, he said, would almost certainly be willing to drive a long distance to see one here.

Yet when civic officials were asked about building a viewing platform, a way of giving everyday people a chance to watch the eagles, they responded with a string of reasons for why they couldn't do it. Baldassarre, exasperated, said it was all too typical. Communities across the land were desperately seeking ways to attract visitors, and here was a magnificent, even miraculous, opportunity in Syracuse - and we couldn't muster the civic will to find the right spot for a big wooden platform.

Baldassarre told me it was part of a syndrome he'd noticed here, a syndrome he described this way:

Too often, in Syracuse, we're in the "no business," he said. Too often, when it comes to being innovative, we come up with reasons for why we can't get something done, and we choose instead to do the safe, predictable thing - or to do nothing different at all.

At The Warehouse, alternatives to I-81: Getting into the 'yes business' | syracuse.com