A group of volunteers from El Dorado and Amador counties recently cleaned up a public nuisance on Eldorado National Forest land.
Over the last 15 years, a well-organized group of volunteers called "Please Leave It NRA Klean" from the El Dorado Rod and Gun Club have cleaned up numerous illegal dump sites on Eldorado National Forest lands.
Its modus operandi is to solicit candidate sites from the local district ranger and clean up the litter using volunteers from local chapters of the National Rifle Association. ...
Current Amador District Ranger Doug Barber asked Morgan if the PLINK group would help remove an abandoned travel trailer and other illegally dumped material on a section of the old Highway 88 near Omo Ranch Road. ...
On Saturday, Nov. 15, Morgan's group of volunteers got to work at 9 a.m. Fifteen volunteers pitched in to load a USFS flatbed dump truck for two trips to the Ione dump.
The big project, stripping the travel trailer down to just its frame, ...
... Morgan's volunteers included Tony Zepczyk of Grizzly Flat; Cathy Morgan of Elk Grove; Greg Carlson and De Wayne Palmer from Intel in Folsom; Ed Dunn and Joe Treiber of Placerville; Douglas Ricciarelli of Fairplay; David Hawkins and Gary Stone of Sacramento; Doug Becker, Jake Erlich, Rick Ferdon and Rich and Chris Stevens of Sutter Creek. Mike Stroude of the USFS Amador Ranger District was the USFS contact and pitched in to load and drive the truck to the Ione dump.
NRA Vols Clean Up Illegal Dump Site
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