Yes, I hate say it but this cleanup seems to have somewhat become a victim of the 2 trackers cleanup’s success. I had feared that this would happen before I started this, but after talking with Pat we thought that because they are in different parts of the state, and mine being the following weekend that I would pick enough people that didn’t want to drive all the way over there, or who couldn’t make it that weekend would come to this cleanup. That has not happened. It seems that most people that are willing to a cleanup have started planning their time around going to that one and feel that they are then “off the hook” for doing another. I’m not pointing the finger at you Gary, I’m agreeing with you that asking people go do forests cleanup’s 2 weekends in a row is probably asking too much.
As if it wasn’t already extremely difficult to get people out this year, next year would be worse. Easter is very late next year, April 24th, which would require me to switch to a different weekend. Presumably the weekend before will be the 2 trackers cleanup, and I don’t want to try to do it any earlier in the year than that because in St. Helen you run the risk of finding snow cover and frozen ground which would make things difficult. The weekend after would be the Blessing, and after that Mothers day, neither which I want to compete with. Beyond that people’s schedules tend to get even busier. So I just don’t see it happening next spring.
I would consider the possibility of doing something in the fall of 2011, but only if someone else takes on the task of recruiting volunteers. I’ll do the rest.
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