River Clean Up In A Land Far Away

[flyangler]

The fourth river clean up I've organized went very well this year on one of my favorite Wisconsin trout streams. A bunch of TU chapters collaborated with some sportsman's clubs and a women's flyfishing club to clean 25 miles of water on a cool cloudy Saturday morning.

 

Here are the stats supplied today by the county Solid Waste Department, which picked up and weighed our stuff, then sold the recylables.

 

Here's how the volunteers hard work stacked up:

 

2800 lbs recyclables

2180 lbs trash

37 tires

2 TV's

1 Computer Monitor

 

My stats:

 

168 volunteers signed up via email with me

143 signed in at the club

31 of the 143 showed up without signing up

 

25 miles of fishable water noticeably cleaner on April 20th, 2008

 

The prize for the oddest find went to the fellow who plucked a wedding garter out of the river.

[wongrs]

awesome! it must feel great to help haul out all that trash.

 

congrats on a successful event!

[PaleMorningDunce]

Well done on the cleanup! Rich, when are you fly back to Calgary to organize this year's Bow River trash haul???

 

Cheers,

Ben

[wongrs]

if you pay for my flight (and my al gore carbon offsets.....zing!) and get for max to hook into a few fish for me and let me fight them, then i'll be there in a jiffy!

[flyangler]

Thanks fellas. The volunteers really worked hard and many were rewarded with excellent fishing afterward. Instant Karma?