Through going up in Green Bay and De Pere, Wisconsin, there has always been a topic that has continuously appeared and disappeared. That is the condition of the Fox River, throughout my childhood I was never able to fully use the river to swim or fish within. That is because of the dangerously high levels of pollution that are within the water. The river has been found to have 209 chemicals found in a study by Sharon A. Fitzgerald and Jeffrey J. Steuer. Throughout my studies, I have found great effort to restore the river to the conditions it had been before the comings of the paper mills. Through the studies and and reports by Kristin Sewell, Alyssa Offutt, Millaine Wells, Eric Heisig, Eric Peterson, Nuria Ribas-Fito, and other documents
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The paper mill company has been growing ever since, and was a growing industry until 1958. In Kristin Sewall’s blog called “History of the Paper Industry in the Fox Cities”, she explains the paper industry peaked at 81 business in 1958, and employed a total of 21,500 employees. This shows that the paper industry was able to help the community around the them. The employment helped grow the economy of cities around the Fox River in Wisconsin. The paper mill industry was considered a giant success for the Fox river communities up until …show more content…
At the university, we are required to take three quest classes explaining what is sustainability, civic learning and intercultural knowledge. Each of these topics relate back to the Fox River, because they explain can be used to explain the history of the Fox River. First, the original pollution of the Fox River is both ecological and economically sustainable, because of the paper mills. The paper mills were able to create jobs for the communities around the Fox River, but at the same time destroy the river in the process by polluting the waters with different chemicals. At the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, I am a economic major that has learned that due the the creation in the demand for jobs in the Fox River area. That caused an increase in the wages given the communities around them, and was able to increase the buying power of the civilians. Which shows that the paper companies were not only doing wrong, but were actually helping the community during the 1950’s to the 1970’s. Second, the history of the pollution in the Fox River relates to civic learning about my hometown and aspects within the region. The Fox River is an important part of my community and is important to myself, because of the mysteries of the pollution and not being able to use it in my childhood. These things were all answered by doing my research on the
The paper mill company has been growing ever since, and was a growing industry until 1958. In Kristin Sewall’s blog called “History of the Paper Industry in the Fox Cities”, she explains the paper industry peaked at 81 business in 1958, and employed a total of 21,500 employees. This shows that the paper industry was able to help the community around the them. The employment helped grow the economy of cities around the Fox River in Wisconsin. The paper mill industry was considered a giant success for the Fox river communities up until …show more content…
At the university, we are required to take three quest classes explaining what is sustainability, civic learning and intercultural knowledge. Each of these topics relate back to the Fox River, because they explain can be used to explain the history of the Fox River. First, the original pollution of the Fox River is both ecological and economically sustainable, because of the paper mills. The paper mills were able to create jobs for the communities around the Fox River, but at the same time destroy the river in the process by polluting the waters with different chemicals. At the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, I am a economic major that has learned that due the the creation in the demand for jobs in the Fox River area. That caused an increase in the wages given the communities around them, and was able to increase the buying power of the civilians. Which shows that the paper companies were not only doing wrong, but were actually helping the community during the 1950’s to the 1970’s. Second, the history of the pollution in the Fox River relates to civic learning about my hometown and aspects within the region. The Fox River is an important part of my community and is important to myself, because of the mysteries of the pollution and not being able to use it in my childhood. These things were all answered by doing my research on the