We are.
A conservation organization
trying to go nonprofit.
We aim to pretty much clean trash
around all of our national state parks,
local city parks, beach, parks,
wherever we can go wherever there's
trash and a lot of it is pretty
much what we're trying to clean up.
If I'm complaining about something,
why am I not doing something about it?
I can do the little bit of
trash when I go back back,
but that's a small bag that I can carry.
You know, I'm already carrying
30 to £40 when I go out 'cause
I'm carrying camera gear,
so I can try to share the experience
so I do pick up trash.
Why I'm out there,
but I can only do so much,
so I want to throw events
and and raise that awareness.
Through that
so we did the San Joaquin River.
Obviously we've done that twice.
I've been out there where we're
at about £1000, maybe just over.
I have to look at my notes
just over £1000 at that place,
and then I did another clean up
right on Pelandale Road in Modesto,
across from Big Valley Christian
High school football field.
There was a really bad problem
over there with trash piling up
and also a place where people were
deciding to stay for a little while.
And it was just completely trashed.
We picked just over £1000 at that
location and then just recently
within the last two weeks we
were up at Knights Ferry and we
did a trash cleanup over there.
And I want to say we picked
up roughly about 500 pounds.
We put ourselves in some pretty
gnarly situations.
There was a spot where I had to climb down.
That was pretty dangerous because
there was just a bunch of bottles and
cans and trash that were getting ready
to just get blown into our River.
So we kind of.
Made the choice to get down there and get it.
Last minute a little unprepared
probably won't do it again
without harnesses and ropes.
When we originally got out there,
we pull up. We find a parking spot and we
just see an entire Hill covered in trash.
I mean, it's literally run up the highway.
You can't miss it. It's right.
As you passed the bridge as the
San Joaquin River 132 sign right
there and it's just constant.
I just drove by there the other day.
I'm actually going to go back out
there to clean that hillside because
it's trashed again and then you go
down to the River and you just see
tons of beer cans fishing line.
Free paint can or spray paint cans.
Diapers I found needles.
I've all sorts of broken glass beer bottles.
Just all kinds of stuff,
and that's a spot that I plan
to take my kid to go fish.
I see tons of kids out there
fishing with their families and
it just seemed kind of dangerous,
so I, you know, that's part of the
reason why we're out there.
Cleaning found tires.
All kinds of things.
That kind of ties,
and there's no expectation
from anybody with this.
I kind of I kind of had a brain
fart 'cause I'm a little nervous
in here with that last question.
Sorry, but. It's just it's for me.
It's it's a service apps on my part.
I inhabit this earth I contribute to this
earth and I feel an obligation and a
responsibility to help with that problem.
There's tons of people that don't,
and I feel that way.
I feel driven, I feel motivated for that
and I the end result in goal for this.
It's honestly.
I think it's it's.
We can take this as far as we want.
You know there's just so much we can do.
I'm a huge fan of coffee and I I know that
I want to bring this into coffee one day.
I know I think I told you that once
and I'd like to get into guiding
families into into doing this.
Into experiencing the outdoors and
how to do it responsibly so we
can protect our public lands and
our national forests from being
closed down because people ruining
it with polluting it with trash.
I mean,
if we don't start doing something
about it on our end as a community,
as people who inhabit this,
someone has to regulate it and I
would hate for things to be shut down
because we as a society cannot manage
our responsibilities of packing out,
will be back in.