bank cleanups

[ampersat]

hey folks,

it's been a while since we've done a bank cleanup. with the coho action inland and fall nooks at the coast, i'll bet there's plenty of garbage to be picked up out there. let's get at it! not only is it a good way to meet your fellow ifisher, it's good for the community and the environment. not to mention it's usually good for a KP to go do some fishing.

if you know of a place that could use a good cleanup, post it here. we can start separate threads for specific cleanups once we identify some target areas.

[Flatfish]

Good post Ampersat
the salmon river could stand a cleanup.maybe start with anybody who has a corkie on their line.I have been hitting my home river for years cleaning up after the scum of the outdoor world.If ya have any suggestions I would reccomend mid november.By then many of the salmon runs have tapered off and folks may be more eager to pitch in.
Mark without the dog.

[ 10-09-2002, 09:25 PM: Message edited by: Flatfish ]

[Dan Christopher]

i can tell you the sandy is pretty bad off around troutdale park.i floated it last week and picked up about half a bag full without even scratching the surfese
i am waiting for the coho action to get over so all the maggots will stay home and not mess it up again ,,but at the end of the month or the first of next i will be floating it again with trash bags.

anyone want to join in the fun???

[Just_learning]

count me in MadWizard! I will make the trip

[SandySteel]

The Sandy Chapter to northwest steelheaders is going to have our bi-annual cleanup for the Sandy (we do one in the winter and one in the spring) on December 14. I realize that this is a ways away but we schedule it when we can. We have adopted the Sandy, with SOLV's "adopt a river" program, from Oxbow boat ramp down the powerlines. Several other groups have adopted other sections but I don't know if they clean those up. For instance, Tom McCall chapter is the adopter (is that a word?) for the section from the powerlines down to Lewis & Clark. We spend a good portion of the first part of a day cleaning and then we go fishing in the afternoon. Here are pictures from our Spring cleanup in 2000.
SOLV is a great organization to work with on this. They supply trash bags and keep track of the work we do (we send in cards to inform them about our progress). I would highly recommend that you make this a little more organized and official. Perhaps you have a business and would like to get your folks out to clean up a section of river. Perhaps the ifish community could adopt several. Is there anyone out there willing to organize volunteers and cleanup events and coordinate it with SOLV? It would be pretty easy to get folks to show up but you would need a solid contact person to make things happen. It takes someone grabbing the bull by the horns to make it work though. I don't have time personally with the work I do for the steelheaders (newsletter, web site, classroom fish tanks(again), acclimation pond coordinator, secretary) but I know that there is someone with the time and the ability to do it.
Then again sometimes just doing it spontaneously is great too. But you don't get quite the recognition and it doesn't happen as consistently that way. Just an idea.
Here's the web site for the Adopt a River program for SOLV

[ragjr]

Let me know. I'm just a bankie but always carry my junk out and then some, it seems like other people don't care what they leave behind, or try to make it to a trash can or burn bucket, I know there are a couple on the sandy from were the homeless stay during the spring on.

[smoky]

If somebody goes down the Clack before me, stop at the forks (below the creek)and grab the bag of trash sitting on the bank. Bring a bag with you and grab the rest of the garbage. Should only take 5 minutes.

I did it a few weeks ago with my Willie Garbage Hauler. Suprised the heck out of the bankies. Some of them started to help me.

Throw a line in if you have time. You still might bump into a Coho.