(millie buchanan) wilma dykeman certainly would be one of those heroes. was seriously a champion, not just for the water quality, but for the whole environment. she was ahead of her time in thinking about the whole ecostem. (wilma dykeman) the french broad county is particulay a region of springs. e water of most) the of the brooks ounty and streams and rivers they form is nearly as pure in its pristine state as wateran be. but when we turned away from this ring at the edge of the kiten yard and turned on the faucet in our porcelain sink, we turd off our interest. what came out of the spigot? one by one, we allowed ourselves and others to begin the rape, which finally in places ended in the murder of the french broad. and it has come about precisely because the headwaters were so pure. the sole blame for the rivers fouling could not be blamed to any onperson ogroup because it belongs to everyone. it's the possession of no one. (j stokely) i think be the thing that made some ne. of those early environmentalists, the john muirs going back there, the aldo le