Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Matt on April 03, 2013, 11:27:42 PM
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Last year the Steelhead Society of BC and volunteers collected 10,164 lbs of garbage from the banks of the Squamish, Cheakamus and Mamquam Rivers and access roads. We're gonna do it again this year on April 21st.
Plan is to meet up around 9:30am, April 21, at Sunwolf in Brackendale, cleanup the river banks, reconvene at about 3pm for burgers (and beer?) at Fergies Cafe at Sunwolf.
Here's the Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/13277127024...lan_user_joined (https://www.facebook.com/events/132771270240838/?notif_t=plan_user_joined)
2011 River Cleanup (http://"http://forum.flybc.ca/index.php?showtopic=30245&hl=squamish+river+cleanup")
2012 River Cleanup (http://"http://forum.flybc.ca/index.php?showtopic=37113&hl=cleanup")
Some pics from last year:
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:)
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Why not!
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Looking forward to it, was a super fun event last year!
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bump. just over a week away. the more volunteers, the more we get done.
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Another great turnout this year. Two dozen volunteers turned out for today's cleanup. Total collected was 5200lbs. We split off into three groups; one group headed into the upper Squamish, another the upper Cheakamus and the third stayed on the lower Cheakamus. Volunteers also walked about 4km of river between the bridges that isn't accessible by road.
We picked the low hanging fruit last year and collected the heavy, but more-easily extracted junk at the sites that had built up over decades. This year we had to walk a little further away, and even chop up a car to extract it. We were able to complete the cleanup of one of the sites on the banks of the Cheakamus. I'd estimate we have pulled out about 12,000lbs over the last 3 years. This year we were able to take it down to bare earth.
Big thanks to everyone who came out despite the forecast, to Squamish District for providing gloves and bags and waiving tipping fees as well as to Sunwolf and Fergie's Cafe for letting us organize our cleanup there (and cooking up some great food before and after the cleanup. Hope everyone who came out had as good a time as I did.
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cutting up a 1970's Corolla to be able to fit it into a trailer
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I had no wheels to get there and nobody offered. :(
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Silver Ghost looked happier than when he catches a fish....
Good job all. :)