Stewards of the White Oak River Basin Current Events

For sixteen years the Izaak Walton League has been cleaning up trash four times every year for a two mile section along Highway 58.

We meet at the T & W restaurant and pick up north and south from there. Our Adopt-A-Highway signs are posted for this section.

Yesterday when we met to do the usual, there were the prisoners already at work doing what we usually do. This points out the lack of cooperation between organizations, both official and voluntary, in performing this task.

We went down to Firetower Road and cleaned it up instead. Here were bottles of all kinds. Some had been smashed by the mower. Beer cans and soda cans were numerous. Most of them had been hit by the mower and cut into jagged pieces of three, four and five for each can!

Then there was the Styrofoam and plastic from take-out purchasers.
These too were cut-up by the mower into beaucoup pieces.

We (all volunteers on roads) need to be notified before mowing!

What we really need is for all to simply stop littering. Why can't we do this simple thing?

Would some psychiatrist please tell us why people continue to litter. Elmer