Cowper Chadbourn of the Arkansas Canoe Club has been heading up major cleanup efforts at Fourche Creek, Little Rock. Cowper has asked for support from Little Rock geocachers on March 14. Here is the text of his message sent to the Keep Arkansas Beautiful office:
For those wishing to participate, Cowper also had the following question:We've marked the location of several trash sites along Fourche Creek. Norm claims he has a dozen groups coming out on March 14. If we have that many, either we'll be picking up line in the parks, or done in 45 minutes. But if someone with GPS skills was available, they could lead smaller groups of people to trash collections along the banks of the creek, so that we could effectively complete the process of cleaning out some of the larger accumulations. I call it Geo Trashing. Basically, we need some folks that are proficient with their GPS, to keep us from wasting time with a group of people wandering in circles, and to make sure we don't leave anyone lost in the woods when the clean up is over.
This would be a GREAT opportunity for Central Arkansas geocachers, or even ArkGeo itself, to hold a CITO event and help out with the cleanup efforts. If you are interested, either as a group or individual, and are willing to volunteer your efforts for a few hours on Saturday, March 14, then please contact Cowper at this email address: cchadbourn@conwaycorp.net. He can also be reached via Facebook.Find out if they have 4 or more folks who would take it from the level of having just an end-point that they needed to get to, or do I need to give them a recommended route. Worded differently, are they willing to visit the area before the actual March 14 event, to find the best route. or should I find that for them so that they can just show up on the day of the event only?
For an idea of the work that Cowper and his group have done already, here is a great segment that aired on KATV last night: http://www.katv.com/story/28076070/i...rk-also-a-dump
Some of you may be contacted by Cowper directly, as he asked me for some recommendations on local geocachers who might want to participate. I took the liberty of providing him with a list of several Little Rock area geocachers and their email addresses.