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Happy Earth Day!

It might be hard to imagine, but before 1970, all factories could unendingly spew black, toxic clouds into the air.

All our national industrial companies could dump many millions of tons of toxic waste into our oceans. And here in Maryland, manufacturing companies could put their poisonous byproducts straight into the Chesapeake Bay.

And it was all perfectly legal.

W. Brooks Paternotte took the helm of Irvine Nature Center as executive director in July 2013 and immediately began building on the strong 35-year foundation. Brooks is a Baltimore native who was a teacher, coach, advisor, dean and Head of the Middle School during his 13 years at Boys’ Latin School in Baltimore. He is also an instructor and ambassador of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and is a Leave No Trace Master, as well as an avid outdoorsman and a features writer for FlyLife Magazine.
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