Thanks to all the volunteers who showed in the rain to help clean the litter from the woods and around Spring Pond. Lynn Councilor William Trahant brought bags and rakes, and then picked up the filled bags with his truck. He was joined by his son. Lynn School Committee member Rick Starbard made signs for the event and organized a group from the Verona Street entrance, near the border of Peabody. He was joined by his daughters. Calvin Anderson brought rakes, bags and a friend from Worchester. A group of 3 children with their guardians were walking the trails from Peabody to Salem, picking up litter. Two ladies, headed toward the Salem trails to pick up litter and study the trees. Brian (of SpringPond.com), and I picked up debris around the site of the former Mansion, and the trails toward the pond. Thanks Brian, for sharing these photos, and thanks to everyone for coming together on this day.
Rick and Bill were discussing on having another clean up day again soon.
We'll plan for a sunnier day :)
Trash collected from the woods, piled into Trahant's truck...
peace
What a difference a few focused individuals can make! We collectively found and removed many bags and hundreds of pounds of human-made debris from the fragile Spring Pond Woods environment...the bulk was found, as expected, along the hiking trails and the shoreline areas where people tend to travel and hang out for nature's experiences...we urge USE, NOT ABUSE of these precious places...long the naturalists' credo, 'PACK IT IN, PACK IT OUT'... modern litter tends to resist degrading and will lay around for years as the food containers, candy wrappers, and plastic bottles carted in by humans... and, BTW, we found an agitator from a washing machine and an inner-fender from a car!..several full cars are in there, slowly dissolving away into their ferrous-metal elements...after the plastics have been removed and taken away... SPA (Spring Pond Advocates) is trying to have a trash barrel placed at the popular entrance points to this enchanted forest and watershed to be emptied on a regular basis...this should make a difference and make it easier for recreational users of the trails... feel free to carry in some vinyl gloves and a shopping bag whenever you enter Spring Woods Pond Reservation-in-spirit...cart out what others have left behind...!...
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