Fighting for the fields. (Poland)

E | August 1, 1995| | Copyright

Poland is usually thought of as a kind of environmental house of horrors. Belching smokestacks, coal-darkened buildings and mammoth industrial complexes are the dismal and grimy images that leap at us from reports about Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, wholesale despoliation is not a pervasive condition. In spite of the gray renderings, much of Poland is still surprisingly lush. Unfortunately, few get to see past the cheerless Orwellian visage to the other Poland -- the green Poland.

Anyone who has ventured beyond the urban tourist corridors knows of the rare quality ...

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