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News.bytesNews.bytes Extra, issue 320

Photos from second annual Calico cleanup

Off-road organizations coordinated with Discovery Trails and the Bureau of Land Management, to clean up Mule Canyon near historic Calico Ghost Town, north of Barstow. In this second year for the cleanup, hundreds of volunteers fanned out across the area collecting trash, during Presidents Day weekend 2008. (more below)

Volunteers load yellow plastic bags with the smaller items of trash

The bags were then loaded onto trailers for transport

Pausing to scan for more trash, a volunteer holds a burlap sack

Some pieces of trash were larger than others...much larger, in this case
Volunteers struggle with a large metal box from an old abandoned appliance


Two of the volunteers pcik up trash from along a dirt road in the area
Two of the volunteers pcik up trash from along a dirt road in the area

Organizers address part of the large crowd of volunteers from the back of a flatbed truck at a staging area
Organizers address part of the large crowd of volunteers from the back of a flatbed truck at a staging area

 

This year, the groups founded a website to help volunteers learn more about the event: http://www.calicocleanup.com/.

- 2/08


BLM California News.bytes, issue 320

 
Last updated: 02-27-2008