After I finished breakfast I got ready to go rod and reeling inside Wilson Creek. I jumped into my jet boat and picked up Aaron and we took off. The water was really high in front of town because the ice caps were melting due to global warming, and we were having really bad floods every spring after the ice broke up. When we got to our fishing spot we started to fish. But, although we fished for a long time, we caught nothing. Aaron said it was maybe because they had another oil spill inside Wilson. I checked how much gas we had, and it looked like we had enough to go to Willow Creek. So we fished at the mouth of Willow and caught a couple of fish there. We also tried farther inside Willow, but there was nothing there either because Willow was too polluted and the fish had deserted the area. We got bored, so we went back home.

It was still early when we got home, so I asked Aaron if he wanted to go moose hunting with me. He said yes, so I went to the store and asked my dad if he could buy me a couple of gallons of gas. Then we took off to Owl Slough. There were already lots of people there when we arrived, but there weren't many moose left because we had overhunted them in the past. We finally found a place where there was nobody, but because there was no fresh moose sign there we went back home.

We were really bored at home, so we went up to the dump and targeted the ravens. There were lots of them at the dump because it was really full of trash, and there was no other place to put the trash because we had filled up all the tundra.

We were going to go drifting for my mom the next day because the weather was supposed to be good. But when we got up my mom said the weather was smoggy from all of the cars and trucks in Marshall. It was really hot too, probably from global warming. We got ready to go, though, and took off for Goose Island. We thought we were going to catch a lot of fish that day because there used to be a big run of fish going up the river at this time of the year. But we caught only a couple of fish because the new dam blocked the way of the fish.

When we got home we wanted to take a ride with my four wheeler, but we couldn't because I was out of gas, and we couldn't buy anymore because we had a limit on how much gas we could buy since the world was running out of oil. And when I went home to have a drink of water my mom told me not to use too much water because we were almost out of water. People had contaminated the drinking water again and we were on strict rations! I sure hope we don't leave a world like that for future generations!

By Willie Paul Fitka