If you haven't noticed, our culture is pretty polarized.

Ah for the days when we fought about Pepsi or Coke, Yankees or Red Sox, and flies or bait. Alas.

But just because there are some major rifts between politics, religion, and worldview doesn't mean that we can't come together to improve riparian habitat and pick up trash out of a local river. Maybe, just maybe, if we take a mere conservationism approach we can do those things and have a genuine, in-person conversation with one another.

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