Dear Friend,
I have been around for more than 150 million years. I am glad to see you approach my waters and I ask that you please treat them with care. Any plastic left on my banks ends up polluting not only myself and the beings that I house, but the oceans as well. Plastic straws, bags, bottles –plastic anything– harms me and all my friends, the turtles, fish, frogs, birds... I love to play with the big snapping turtles that live in my waters. During the past few decades there has been a great effort to reclaim me and to allow me to thrive again. I have gone from being an open dumpster where appliances and cars used to be tossed, to a thriving ecosystem where you can see a diversity of creatures come back, including beavers. Your future and mine are tied together.
With love,
The Bronx River
