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| The Fort Bedford, PA TU Chapter worked on Wallacks Branch in Bedford County, PA at an old dumpsite and planted several trees along the stream. After a cookout, chapter members collected invertebrate samples and taught fly tying and fly casting. |
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| Boise's Ted Trueblood chapter conducted a clean up and brought out 25 volunteers to clean up their local waters. Among the more interesting things they found were a sleeping bag, a body pillow and 20 feet of barbed wire--not your usual river inhabitants. |
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| The Gila Trout chapter/Payson Flycasters worked to clean up the Verde River in Arizona. About 30 volunteers showed up to collect items in the river: including bottles, cans, clothing, batteries, fishing line and an American Indian pattern rug. Clearly, according to clean-up team leader Randy Loman, "There is still some educating to be done as far as what 'Pack it in, Pack it out' means." |
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Mill Creek, Nashville, Tenn.-- Several dozen volunteers, including Outdoor LIfe staff who were in town for the CMA festival, worked together to clean up Mill Creek, a tributary of the Cumberland River.
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| Rocky Mountain Flycasters in conjunction with Alpine Anglers, Friends of the Big Thompson and Loveland Fishing Club cleaned 9 miles of the lower section of the Big Thompson River and found a computer monitor, goose decoy, deflated football, quarter panel, door and hood from a buried car (possibly there since the flood of 1976). |
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| The Blue Ridge Mountain Chapter rallied 63 volunteers including Boy Scout Troop 460 in Morganton, and accomplished a massive cleanup effort on the Toccoa River. Members of the Cohutta and Nantahala-Chattahoochee TU chapters also participated. All in all, our enthusiastic volunteers removed an estimated 3/4 ton of trash, including car, truck and tractor tires; building materials; a furnace; a television set; assorted glass, cans, and plastic bottles; fishing gear; plastic bags; Styrofoam cups and coolers; a cell phone/computer device; a “message in a bottle” (more on that below); and miscellaneous other trash and debris. The Toccoa River was a little cleaner and nicer Saturday afternoon than it was that morning. |
New York's Long Island Chapter of TU worked to clean up the Painters Bend section of the Beaverkill River. »Watch a video
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TU national staff joined forces with the Potomac/Patuxent TU chapter to clean the Savage Mill section of the Little Patuxent River.
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| TU volunteers from the Oklahoma chapter and the Eighty-Niners chapter sponsored a clean-up on the Lower Illinois River and found some very unique items, including a stove, toilet, and a jar of pickled peppers. This just could be the most interesting thing found in a stream clean-up...though we'll have to wait for all entries to come in. |
| Sixty people from the community of Pecos and members of the Truchas Chapter held their annual Pecos River Clean-up and Picnic on Saturday May 30th. »View Images |
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| In Normandy Park, a town along Puget Sound in Washington State, TU staff and TU grassroots volunteers joined with flyfishing guides from Emerald Water Anglers and other salmon recovery enthusiasts in a stream and wetland restoration project along Miller and Walker Creeks. |
| Michigan's Headwaters Chapter: Nearly 25 volunteers cleaned up the lower portion of the Thunder Bay River in downtown Alpena, from the 9th Street dam to the mouth of the river at Lake Huron. »View Images |
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