Photo of Steve Clinton and Melissa Harbert with BLM T-shirt – by David Ledger
Saturday, September 28th was National Lands Day and, working with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), SEA led a cleanup crew of 14 or more volunteers on the Clear Creek Trail from the Gorge Parking lot upstream to Horsetown with a few volunteers heading downstream. At the Horsetown Clear Creek Preserve, they had many volunteers working on the Horsetown trails clearing brush, weeds, and trash.
After the cleanup, about 40 or more volunteers enjoyed a barbecue hosted by BLM personnel with dessert provided by the Preserve board. They had a good number of young volunteers from the College Corps. Besides the free lunch, BLM gave out free National Public Lands t-shirts.
The award for the most trash picked up goes to Melissa Harbert and Steve Clinton who went up and down steep slopes off the trail to pick up trash. The hardest workers were Terry Swanson and Yo Sudahara for working for three hours on this hot Saturday clearing brush off the trail and cutting back smaller shrubs with chainsaws.
The biggest piece of trash was a huge wide-screen TV dumped near the water’s edge. Everyone did a great job in cleaning up the trail and weed-whacking the weeds. This is a trail SEA has unofficially adopted and does a trail cleanup here every 3 months. Cleaning up creeks in Redding means less trash reaches the ocean. Thank you to all our volunteers!