The lake in Wasilla where Palin lives is classified as "dead" thanks to overdevelopment

[LynneSin]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/19/palin/index.html?source=rss&aim=/news/feature

Sarah Palin's dead lake

Sept. 19, 2008 | WASILLA, Alaska -- Every morning she's at home here, Sarah Palin wakes up to a postcard view from her lakeside home. Out the windows of her two-story wood-framed house stretch the serene, birch-lined waters of Lake Lucille. Ducks go gliding by the red-and-white Piper Cub floatplane docked outside. With the snow-frosted Chugach and Talkeetna mountains looming in the distance, the scene seems to define the Alaska that Palin celebrates: rugged, majestic, unspoiled.

And, yet, the lake Sarah Palin lives on is dead.

"Lake Lucille is basically a dead lake -- it can't support a fish population," said Michelle Church, a Mat-Su Valley borough assembly member and environmentalist. "It's a runway for floatplanes."


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Among the environmental casualties of Wasilla's frenzied development was Palin's own front yard, Lake Lucille. The lake was listed as "impaired" in 1994 by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and it still carries that grim label. State environmental officials say that leaching sewer lines and fertilizer runoff caused an explosion of plant growth in the lake, which sucked the oxygen out of the water and led to periodic fish kills.

"Sarah," a recent biography of Palin by Kaylene Johnson, features a photo of a beaming Palin, sitting in a rowboat on Lake Lucille clutching a fishing rod. But, according to local fishermen, the Republican vice-presidential candidate would have to be very lucky to reel in something edible.

The Alaska Fish and Game Department dutifully stocks the lake with coho salmon and rainbow trout each year -- but the fish don't last long.

[grannie4peace]

1. that needs to get to environmental groups!!!!!!

[fascisthunter]

2. That's What Happens when You Place Responsibility in the Hands of an "End-Timer"

[Disturbed]

5. Pit Bull Palin, the phony Enviromentalist.

Everything about this women is phony. Alaskans should demand that she be Impeached!

[fascisthunter]

7. She's Not Only Phony...

...she's a Damn Bat-Shit-Bark-at-the-Moon-Religious-Right-Nutcase.

[mockmonkey]

3. It just needs some

Oil Rigs. The fish just love em.:thumbsup:

[NYC_SKP]

Well, you just don't understand....

See, God create the Earth for the exclusive exploitation by humans, who by the way are superior to all other life forms.

There's nothing unusual here, when WILL you people understand?

:sarcasm:

:hi:

[kestrel91316]

4. It's called "eutrophication". I learned all about it in grade school.

I see we haven't learned much about changing our polluting ways in the interim.

Don't imagine the runoff from the 42 meth labs is very helpful, either.......

[vaberella]

6. Oh my God!!! She killed Lake Lucille. Mother Nature will bite her ass hard.

Pay back is a bitch when Mother Nature does it.

[doublethink]

8. Sad.....

K&R. :kick:

[vanderBeth]

9. So it's not just animals

She hates all of nature.

[DeepModem Mom]

10. K&R

[WillyT]

11. Big K & R !!!

:kick:

[kwyjibo]

12. Well, the End Times are coming soon, so it doesn't really matter.

And surely Jesus will will the lake with fish if he thinks we need it. Obviously, since he hasn't, the lake isn't important.

[quidam56]

13. But THEY are the party of GOD !

Those left wing nuts are unpatriotic tree huggers ! Dick Morris - " So, we kill a couple of polar bears, we got to get to work." Bill O'reilly - " COME ON ! the caribou don't care if we drill ANWR". Sean Hannity saved a one acre sixty year old family business from being taken over by condos to Eminent Domain and patted himself on the back, the hero fighting for 'the people'. www.wisecountyissues.com Now, here in Southwest Virginia, (Wise County, the safest place on earth.) we are loosing our homes, not from a hurricane but to hurricane makers, not to foreclosure, but to greed. 350 Million year old Appalachian Mountains are being raped and pillaged at an ever increasing desperation to decapitate the mountain, getting to that black gold. Our watersheds are being polluted as the streams are either full of toxic chemicals or dried up, this area is over 27 inches below where we should be, yet we just keep staying the course. There will only be change when those unaffected are as outraged as those who are.