What I found amazing was that the Westport, Slocum and Sakonnet Rivers are kept as devoid of Coke cans, and refuse of any kind as I found the Snake and Green Rivers in Wyoming as well as the rivers of Montana.
One night in early autumn, with the swampy ground of the Nature Preserve papered with fallen leaves, I was hunkered down to examine a dead snake about a foot in length whose color I thought might in life have been green, when, as I stood, I felt something brush the top of my head.