Cleaning Up The Neighborhood

[scrambler81]

My local club contacted the Division of Fish and Wildlife, and asked if it would be OK for us to do a little spring cleaning. There is a wildlife management area that we sorta consider to be our "Home Trail", and it's been looking a little messy. The rangers really liked our idea, but due to a scheduling conflict, they were unable to supply us with dumpsters as hoped, so they designated a dumping area for us, and they will send a crew in this week to remove our junk collection. A couple of newspapers even showed up to take our pictures, so hopefully we'll get a little positive PR out of this. Now, so nobody posts that stupid pic smiley on me....

[scrambler81]

BTW - That's my Scrambler in the picture. I know this is the Unlimited board, but when I'm filling my Jeep with trash, I prefer to bring the old, crappy one.

[moneypit]

Wow that's quite a load of crap you guys picked up. I can't imagine using a forest area as a dump. Never could figure out the logic there. But you did a nice thing. It seems with all the trail closings across the country more press should be spent on the good things offroaders do. Nice work

[jeepnut]

Its guys like you that keep the trails open for us and our children. Thanks for posting pics!

[ebtek]

Thats alot of work. Even though it's far away from where I live. Thank you!

[scrambler81]

Yeah, it was a lot of work, but I'm afraid it's a long way from finished. We didn't kid ourselves, or the rangers, we knew there was no way to get it all in one day. We did make a huge dent, and the rangers certainly know we're serious about helping them clean everything up, so we had a real good day.

[sylvanis]

building a relationship with the rangers in the area is a great way to keep trails open. I presume that it was your local 4x club that did it. Showing responisbility like this is a great way to promote the sport.

Thank you.