| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.3

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.3 | The History Cooperative

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Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850–1950. By Gregory Summers. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. xii + 256 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $29.95.

Wisconsin has two Fox Rivers. The Fox River of this story flows out of Lake Winnebago and into Green Bay, a distance of only thirty-five miles. But over that course, the waters surge downhill by 170 feet, providing "enough energy to fuel decades of industrial growth" (p. 1). The river acted as the engine that drove the development of the valley and sustained its affluence. The anchor of that affluence was the paper industry, represented by the twenty-one mills that operated in the valley during the late 1940s. Unfortunately, however, these mills discharged vast quantities of pollutants. These ranged from the fiber waste that proved inimical to plants and animals by forming a thick layer on the bottom, to the sulfur dioxide that eliminated the oxygen that would otherwise be available to aquatic life.

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