“Paper Valley: The Fight for the Fox River Cleanup” is the true 1990s story behind the world’s largest, most divisive, most politically charged environmental river cleanup of its kind, a model for dealing with new and future pollution problems. Over two decades later, co-authors P. David Allen II, retired US. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, and Susan Campbell, former environmental reporter for the Green Bay Press Gazette, will review the events that lead to the cleanup as detailed in their recently released book “Paper Valley: The Fight for the Fox River Cleanup.”
An audience question-and-answer session will follow a review of the history of the hard-fought cleanup through its completion in 2020 with the authors and local panelists:
Michael Bahrke (DC Environmental Council), Myles Dannhausen Jr. (Peninsula Pulse), Mike Grimm (The Nature Conservancy) and Mark Holey (retired USFWS fisheries biologist).
A brief overview of restoration efforts funded by the paper companies through the federal Natural Resource Damage Assessment program for the Green Bay watershed will highlight projects of significance to Door County. “Paper Valley” will be available for sale by Novel Bay Books and the authors available for signing.
