| Trashy Tuesday |
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| Written by Wild Nevada |
| Tuesday, 08 June 2010 13:34 |
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Three or four times a year, the Nevada Wilderness Project staff in Reno, NV heads out to Mayberry Street, near the Truckee River and our office, to pick up trash. We adopted the stretch in '06 through the non-profit group Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful. Our first clean-up four years ago was beasty. In addition to the usual litter that people toss or that inadvertantly blows out of someone's reach, our stretch of Mayberry had lots of old trash--even tires--buried in the brush. It had been there for years. Now that we're a few years into it, we've made headway. The big, old stuff is gone and we mainly get out there to stay on top of the litter: fast-food bags, booze bottles, and plastic beverage containers of every size. We filled about four or five bags this morning. We'll also take this opportunity to introduce Devon Creighton, who is spending the summer with us working on GIS and map-making projects. He's a senior at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, just northeast of Pittsburgh, and working on an Environmental Geography degree. He's the one normal looking guy in the photo below (yeah - second from the right. The one with regular pants). 
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