Last Friday afternoon I needed to clear my head and decided to spend an hour fishing on our local creek. This creek is beautiful and full of trout. However, it's also full of trash. As I fished a few hundred yards of the creek, I saw more trash than I could believe possible. Shoes, inner tubes, towels, cans, bottles, plastic bags - you name it. It was truly a sad sight. This creek is heavily used by people in Boulder for many things - kayaking in the spring, inner tubing all summer, swimming, sun bathing and even some fishing. It's a wonderful resource that offers us so much. However, apparently, all we give back is trash. My initial thought was to get a big trash bag and start cleaning up. However, after looking at the big picture, I now think that a community creek clean up is what's needed. A way to get people to both appreciate and take ownership of 'their' creek. People care about what they know. The more they know, the more they care. Someday I hope to organize a community clean up so that we can collectively preserve this wonderful shared resource.
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