- Quassaick Creek
] Kennedy has since cited the experience as an
epiphany , the moment he grasped the connection betweenenvironmentalism and his family's traditional involvement insocial justice : "The battle for the environment ... was the ultimate civil rights and human rights contest, a struggle to maintain public control over publicly owned resources against special interests that would monopolize, segregate and liquidate them for cash."cite news|title=The Laws of Nature: A Profile of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.|url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/?articleID=4032|publisher=DigitalJournal.com |date=2004-11-27|accessdate=2008-02-14|quote=Kennedy is in this fight for the long haul; he discovered his own life in the polluted waters of upstate New York, and he will not rest until he has cleaned up every stream.] Since then the creek has recovered to the extent that residents have begun planning on how it could made accessible and used as a park.cite news|last=Hall|first=Wayne|title=Tides have slowly turned for fouled Quassaick Creek|url=http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/2000/06/23/whcreek.htm|publisher="Times-Herald Record "|date=2000-06-23|accessdate=2008-02-15]References
External links
* [http://www.qcreek.org Quassaick Creek Estuary Preserve and Mill Trail]
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