2021 venture vermont: Pick up litter by the road or in your town

 i'm just going to combine this post with "Attend and support a local event".

so let's start here: i'm the land steward at a town forest, which makes it my JOB to go out periodically and pick up litter from my parcel. i'm also in charge of monitoring trail use and conditions. my only photo of me having picked up trash is from greenup day, though,  which is a local event that i attended and supported.

i HAD been planning to simply GO to greenup day, but then the coordinator of greenup was having a family emergency and all questions came to the conservation commission, and since i was the one who had time to do the scouting, i was the one who drove the town roads looking for the hotspots where we planned to send the volunteers when they came.  then i spent greenup day driving town roads, picking up full bags, handing our fresh bags, and being generally helpful to the volunteers.

fun fact: if volunteers come to do work for you, you can get a lot more work out of them if you adequately support them.

here is a group of volunteers on a project spot:

and here i am with a full trash bucket.