In the course of communing with nature, Chiu and his students had ample opportunity to take note of the growing harm that economic expansion and human misconduct had wrought on Ilan's lakes and wetlands.
也就在到處遊山玩水的過程中，他們發現宜蘭越來越多的湖泊溼地正遭受經濟開發或人為的嚴重破壞。