There were seven protesters from Greater Adirondacks Bioregion Earth First! at Little Green Pond that day. Three of them were floating in inflatables in the middle of the pond, one shaped like an alligator, the others a whale and a dolphin.
This is what 60 law enforcement officers discovered on the morning of Thursday, August 23, 1991, when they showed up armed with revolvers, billy clubs and police dogs to ensure that agents from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) could dose the 69-acre pond in Santa Clara with 420 gallons of rotenone, a chemical that efficiently kills gilled organisms. The DEC argued that the fish kill was necessary to prevent yellow perch in the pond from infesting nearby Little Clear Pond, the state’s only hatchery for Atlantic landlocked salmon. Earth First! countered that damming the channel connecting the two ponds was preferable
