Posted: 8/25/2009 12:32:12 PM EDT
| Any of you know of any public land that are littered with garbage? Dump sites, target practice areas, anything. Project Wilderness, a nonprofit I founded, is looking to do a couple forest cleanup projects. |
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This place needs some major help, if anyone is looking for something to do saturday the 12th of September we could use the help cleaning the county forest off wildcat mountain rd. Near eagle creek & 211/224. Email [email protected] with any questions. |
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If you can make it this Saturday at 9am for the cleanup of forestry land we'd love it! It may be a little work, but we always have a good time!
Here is an address for reference, this is a dirt parking lot which we'll meet at 9am. 30400 SE Wildcat Mountain Dr, Eagle Creek, OR 97022 Bring Gloves, No open Toe shoes, recommended long pants. Water & Snacks provided. |
| There are several places up on the Sammon Berry Road off of Hwy 26 about MP 31.7 heading toward the coast.About 2 miles up this road there is a road that goes off to the left to a fair size rock where people go to shoot and leave there trash behind. I have cleaned this area by myself before when I had a place to get rid of the trash but now that I have retired that is no longer possible. |
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There are several places up on the Sammon Berry Road off of Hwy 26 about MP 31.7 heading toward the coast.About 2 miles up this road there is a road that goes off to the left to a fair size rock where people go to shoot and leave there trash behind. I have cleaned this area by myself before when I had a place to get rid of the trash but now that I have retired that is no longer possible. Thanks Giddy, I check into it. |
| Keep the suggestions coming for our next cleanup on Oct 24th. We'll make our decision Friday Sept 25th. Anywhere in OR or WA. Just post in the thread or email [email protected] |
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10/24 starting at 8am
Triangle Gravel Pit in the Capitol State Forest is located near the junction of Waddell Creek and Sherman Roads. 8am Meeting place will be Dirt lot at Waddell Creek Rd & 105th ave Sw, Olympia WA This event is hosted by Project Wilderness & coordinated with Washington DNR. Volunteers need to wear rugged shoes & bring gloves (leather gloves recommended). Water & BBQ lunch will be provided. You can RSVP using one of the two links below; Project Wilderness on Facebook www.projectwilderness.org/ 
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20 Volunteers (including some ARFCOM members) Took 11 full trucks of crap to the dumpster. All photos |
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Project Wilderness is teaming up with Tualatin River Keepers on November 7th at the Metro Purchased Munger Lane Riparian zone habitat restoration project! Come join Project Wilderness & Tualatin River Keepers November 7th (Saturday) from 9am till Noon and help plant natives along the Tualatin River!
Tualatin River Restoration | Facebook For Directions call; (503)620-7507 Google Maps, Munger Lane Come out and help, it's only 4 hours. Four hours helping wildlife, fish and our water quality. If nothing else you'll feel good about getting outside for a little while! I'll be there, broken ankle and all!! So come razz me about my suggested to be "left of center" views 
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I just wanted to share something with everyone. As I'm sure some of you recall Project Wilderness did a cleanup on the Triangle Gravel Pit in the Capitol State Forest near Olympia, WA in OCT. Removing 11 truck loads of garbage.
The DNR expressed serious concern over this site and wanted to explore all options to solve the problem of dumping and irresponsible shooting. I offered to form & mentor a local steward group of local shooters to look after, maintain the site and help educate shooters that probably don't understand the risk this location is at for closure, however I asked for DNR stamp of approval on the group before starting to ask people to step up to the plate. They have decided to go in a different direction. Closure. They're looking at finding a spot in the forest to be an "official" shooting area, but not sure if that will happen. So just a reminder to everyone that public lands are consistently at risk for closure to certain activities if we don't cleanup after ourselves. Moving on, Last week we did some habitat restoration along the Tualatin River with Tualatin River Keepers. Actually the 2nd time we worked with them. We had a great turnout, 22 people. This weekend we'll be in Tillamook at the "Mills" launch along the Wilson River removing english ivy that has fully covered 3 trees, still surviving at the moment though. As well as removing a huge amount of Himalayan blackberries in prep for some natives to go in. Feel free to come help out. The link below offers detailed location, we'll be working around 9am-noon . We're not expecting a large crowd this time, but could always use an extra hand if you're from the area ;) Google Maps |
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I offered to form & mentor a local steward group of local shooters to look after, maintain the site and help educate shooters that probably don't understand the risk this location is at for closure, however I asked for DNR stamp of approval on the group before starting to ask people to step up to the plate. You should do this anyway, without approval. I get the feeling they don't think it will help (thus moving for closure) but if you press forward and show them, then you may have some luck later on down the road. |
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Ok any of you shooters that also fish, here's a spot that might be just up your alley!
The next few weeks we'll be working on a site Project Wilderness adopted from ODFW along the Wilson River in Tillamook. (Mills) Address 12206 wilson river hwy, Tillamook OR 97141 Google Maps Location Removing invasive weeds & planting natives. If you've ever been interested in habitat restoration, here's your chance. Dec 12th - 8:30-12:00 (invasive removal) Dec 19th - 8:30-12:00 (invasive removal) Jan 4th - 8:30-12:00 (native planting) www.projectwilderness.org |