The Recorder publishes a brace of columnists worth constant reading even on your frontier at Athol.

On the Nov. 22, Gary Sanderson offered an especially challenging column on Dr. Catherine Carroll Carlson’s dissertation proposing that salmon never populated our rivers.

Lately, “academics” have challenged her reasoned hypothesis with smoke and mirrors. Nonexact science does not trump challenged reviewed research.

If you appreciate nature, read it.

I thank Mr. Sanderson for his unusual high standards in journalism. The Recorder’s award-winning past still survives.

Earle Baldwin

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