What we found was disturbing. Despite the fact that our waters were getting cleaner: The International Joint Commission said..."The Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay are one of the 18 worst polluted areas in U.S./Canadian waters".

  A state advisory urges skiers and swimmers not to submerge their heads in the Saginaw River.

  U.S. Environmental protection agency representatives do not recommend that pregnant woman and children eat fish from the Tittabawassee river, and fish advisories remain on bottom feeding fish in the Saginaw River and the Saginaw Bay.

  The Michigan Department of Public Health has noted that some soft-tissue cancers and birth defects were found in far greater numbers in the Saginaw Valley than national averages. We decided to continue.

  Since that decision, Lone Tree has actively pushed for the clean-up of PCB's at the Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada facility: supported Greenpeace in their calling for a halt to Dow Chemical Company's toxic discharges into the Tittabawasee River; supported a moratorium on malathion use by mosquito control; opposed dumping toxic Saginaw River dredging on Crow Island; called for vapor controls on local gas stations to eliminate toxic fume; opposed a sanitary landfill in Beaver Township; prepared environmental educational material and lobbied for a strong Superfund.