Eyes on environment

CASCADE - Matthew Lisk inched belly down and head first onto a submerged log in pursuit of a Styrofoam bowl.

He succeeded. And besides the bowl that once held an angler's worms, Lisk came back with a couple of plastic bottles and a six-foot piece of lumber. Along with the trash, the wood was taken back to the shore of Owasco Inlet, which feeds 55 to 75 percent of Owasco's Lake water.

Even though the wood he scooped out of a snag in the inlet was technically biodegradable, "it's not exactly like the beaver made it," said Lisk, a Southern Cayuga High School student.