Pregracke, Chad, 1974-

From the bottom up : one man's crusade to clean America's rivers / Chad Pregracke With Jeff Barrow ; introduction by Tim Wall. - Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2007. - xvii, 301 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Working the river -- Big job, small boat -- More than I ever imagined -- There's got to be a better way -- From boatloads to barge loads -- That sinking feeling -- Here, there, and everywhere -- Branching out -- Capital improvements -- Katrina -- Coming to a river near you -- Start your own crusade: 13 tips -- Trash statistics, 1997-2005.

Describes one man's grassroots campaign to clean up the nation's rivers and the surrounding environment, without government funding, by removing garbage.

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