flyangler Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wongrs Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 awesome! it must feel great to help haul out all that trash. congrats on a successful event! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleMorningDunce Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Well done on the cleanup! Rich, when are you fly back to Calgary to organize this year's Bow River trash haul??? Cheers, Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wongrs Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyangler Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Thanks fellas. The volunteers really worked hard and many were rewarded with excellent fishing afterward. Instant Karma? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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