19 Investigators met with Sam Hall, a university student who is documenting the environmental devastation and the impact it’s having on wildlife.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio - State and government officials have assured residents of East Palestine that their lives can go back to normal, but many folks there aren’t buying it.
“It’s terrible to look at,” said Sam Hall, a Sophomore at West Virginia University studying Wildlife and Fisheries Resource Management. “It’s a catastrophe. Everything is dead there’s nothing. You shouldn’t walk through a creek and see piles of dead things floating past you, it should be life.” “There’s dead frogs, dead crayfish, dead fish, everything in the creek is dead and it was all just sitting on the bottom covered in fungus rotting and there’s just a terrible chemical smell through this entire valley,” Hall said.He took videos of the water at Leslie Run creek.
Hall launched a project to document the effects of the fish kill in East Palestine, which is accessible to the general public.“More detailed information can get accessed by universities and researchers throughout i-naturalist it’s used for all different types of projects in the wildlife field,” he said.Taylor Holzer runs Parker Dairy, and is registered with ODNR as a fox keeper.
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