This past Thursday, February 20, a team of ForestWatch volunteers headed back into the Sespe watershed to continue their work cleaning up a problem shooting area. Over the course of only a few hours, over 460 lbs. of shooters’ debris — spent shell casings, blasted PCs, paint cans, beer bottles, and the other usual suspects — were hiked out of the canyon and back down to the highway, where they were hauled away to be disposed of responsibly (or recycled, where appropriate).
This unnamed drainage has long been the site of unchecked target shooting, and will be revisited by ForestWatch field volunteers several times of the course of the year. ForestWatch looks forward to working with the USFS to see such unregulated shooting areas permanently closed in favor of a few dedicated and well-managed sites, as other Southern California forests have been doing for years.
Special thanks goes to Frazier Park Lumber & Hardware, who generously donated 25 new buckets for ForestWatch’s ongoing clean-up projects. We appreciate their support of our field work, and were glad to press those buckets into use the very morning they were received!
Since 2007, ForestWatch volunteers have removed over 10,000 pounds of microtrash and other trash from the Los Padres National Forest. For more information about ForestWatch’s volunteer projects or to get involved, visit LPFW.org/volunteer.
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