Just want to share a few sad lines from an article ("Shoot-out at Little
Galloo") in the Feb. issue of Smithsonian.

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"In fact, Lake Ontario has been changing for 200 years, ever since the War
of 1812 made the Great Lakes' shores safe for American settlers, who moved
here in droves.  Back then, the lake held the world's largest landlocked
population of Atlantic salmon, so many that people could wade into the water
and pitchfork them onto shore.  But the settlers threw milldams up across
major tributaries, which kept the salmon from their spawning grounds, and
cut down trees, causing the wetland to dry up.  By 1860 the salmon were
gone."
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I'll never again view quaint old mills or milldams in quite the same way.

Theola