This State Forest has 9.4 miles of Discontinued for Maintenance Roads, in this case, Forest Roads. Forest Roads provide a Public Right of Way. We identified a need for a clean-up, a large scale clean-up, in the fall of 2024. During the discovery process, we collected several yard waste bags of trash.
For this event, we presented a written plan to the DCR State Forest Management team, met in person, and brought the Forest Supervisor for a ride to show him specific GPS pins where we would focus our attention.
Volunteers, safety tee shirts, pick up tools, garbage bags, banners, DCR staff and Mohawk 4×4 Adventures volunteers.These tee shirts are printed on safety colors, and were required equipment. The weather was terrible, but here’s a good shot of the front of the tee shirt.Our sponsors for the event were awesome. These businesses helped us navigate the most successful line through many obstacles.This Toyota Tacoma hauled a huge load out of the woods on this trip. This Tacoma is pictured during its first run through the forest. In this case, the member and his wife volunteered for 8 hours, to pack their truck full of trash and deliver it to our donated dumpster.This Jeep Gladiator hauled out tires to our tire dumpster from FBS Tire Recycling. When we were scouting the roads for this clean up, we had spotted a pool liner, down by a stream. It was more than just the pool liner, it was most of the pool.Our volunteers were able to get pool from the stream bank to the dumpster, provided by Rick’s Roll-Offs, LLC.This trophy was spotted in 2024, and pinned on GPS. It turned out to be a spelling bee trophy. After the Earth Day Clean-up was complete, the trophy was tightened up, and used as a prize for guessing, without going over, the weight inside the dumpster on a Facebook contest. Amy (red Gladiator) won the contest! The weight in the dumpster was 2180 lbs.“What am I looking at?” That, my friend, is a rocking horse. It is zip tied into a tree. During one of the scouting trips, we had come across teenagers on ATVs and dirt bikes, who had come south from NH. They got the rocking horse cut down, and we set it aside for collection during the clean-up. The problem was – it disappeared before the clean-up. A horse is a horse, unless, of course, unless it’s a magical rocking horse… The Horse was located again on Nov 16th by volunteers and DCR employees. We decided the mythical mascot could stay. It is a little dangerous to remove, it’s off the ground, and it is kind of funny archeology.“Just take those old records off the shelf, I’ll sit and listen to them by myself.” We found two acoustic guitars together.Volunteers removed an entire living room furniture set, up a steep hill. Dirty, moldy, rotted furniture that was probably left here 20+ years ago. Here’s Rick of Rick’s Roll-Offs, LLC. Rick donated the dumpster use, delivered it, came back with his Jeep, volunteered during the entire clean-up and came back the next day to get the dumpster. His company also donated any fees needed for items that required payment to dispose of legally where he unloaded. This kind of volunteerism by club members is next level above and beyond.FBS Tire Recycling donated and delivered this enclosed container for all our our tires and tires and wheels. We ended up with 38 pieces in this dumpster. Our club members are top tier people, enjoying and maintaining top tier, sustainable trails.Tread lightly! and BF Goodrich Outstanding Trails Program sponsorships were instrumental in this entire process. They supplied tools and supplies, and funded our volunteer tee shirts to make this project a success.
