Today my wife and I spent all day today in the Ozarks NF exploring a few trails we hadn’t been down before. What an amazing day. What took up a lot of our day was picking up trash along the way. My Trasharoo was stuffed and even had to put some inside the FJ to bring home.
I have talked with some in different areas around the US about having groups do dedicated trash/litter runs on a monthly/quarterly basis. Specifically getting together and maybe having breakfast/lunch on a trail and running the trail to pick up trash. Whether others want to do this or not I am going to. But I think others will want to do it because it’s part of who we are.
How good of a reputation would it build for OB with communities, forest rangers, wildlife officers etc if we displayed that we, as OB members were coming together to clean up our roads and trails? There are signs all over the country where people sponsor highways and roads. Why can’t we pave the way to do this for off-roads? I’m not sure if we can sponsor a particular road or trail (I plan on asking at the local Ranger station) and I’m pretty sure they won’t put up any signs stating who we are and what we are doing. But...
I thought of maybe getting some flags made that would attach to a roof rack or ones like college teams have that roll up in the vehicle windows or maybe even door magnets that stated “OB Trail Clean Crew” or “OB Operation Litter Free Trails” or “OB Trail Trashman inside” or “OB LIBTUFI CREW” (Leave it Better Than u Found it) or whatever. Whoever saw us or drove by us or whoever we stopped to talk to would know exactly who we are, the organization we represent and the good that we are doing. Word like that travels fast.
Just a thought. My mind is weird and I’m sure the thoughts today won’t be the same tomorrow. But anyway just throwing this out there.
I have talked with some in different areas around the US about having groups do dedicated trash/litter runs on a monthly/quarterly basis. Specifically getting together and maybe having breakfast/lunch on a trail and running the trail to pick up trash. Whether others want to do this or not I am going to. But I think others will want to do it because it’s part of who we are.
How good of a reputation would it build for OB with communities, forest rangers, wildlife officers etc if we displayed that we, as OB members were coming together to clean up our roads and trails? There are signs all over the country where people sponsor highways and roads. Why can’t we pave the way to do this for off-roads? I’m not sure if we can sponsor a particular road or trail (I plan on asking at the local Ranger station) and I’m pretty sure they won’t put up any signs stating who we are and what we are doing. But...
I thought of maybe getting some flags made that would attach to a roof rack or ones like college teams have that roll up in the vehicle windows or maybe even door magnets that stated “OB Trail Clean Crew” or “OB Operation Litter Free Trails” or “OB Trail Trashman inside” or “OB LIBTUFI CREW” (Leave it Better Than u Found it) or whatever. Whoever saw us or drove by us or whoever we stopped to talk to would know exactly who we are, the organization we represent and the good that we are doing. Word like that travels fast.
Just a thought. My mind is weird and I’m sure the thoughts today won’t be the same tomorrow. But anyway just throwing this out there.
