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Sandy Buercert cleans up acres of broken glass
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City of Cottonwood Public Works employee Jim Wixom
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Volunteers Ron and Sandra Bueckert
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City of Cottonwood partnering with Waste Management proided two rool-off dumpsters for the kick-off cleanup at Ogden Ranch Road/Old Highway 279
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Yavapai County Community Services Supe Walter Thomas supervised 200 hours of service at Ogden Ranch Rd. Workers picked up 220 bags of trash & more.
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Bill Warnken of Contender Marine brought his own vehicle and trailer to help at the cleanup. Stewards volunteers are generous!
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Volunteer Bill Warnken
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Roy Buck and Jess Tyler
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City of Cottonwood and Town of Clarkdale provided loaders and operators. Clarkdale furnished a dump truck for the cleanup.
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It takes no time at all to fill a dump truck with illegal dumping.
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Chief Haynie positions full dump truck near roll off dumpster.
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Clarkdale Police Sergeant Mike Pierce volunteers frequently at the Stewards clenups. He's a great loader operator!
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Going....
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Going....
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Going...
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Gone!
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Remants of an illegally dumped pickup camper.
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Some folks think dumping landscaping debris is okay, but they should understand it can take more than 40 years to disintigrate.
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Joan Tyler and Sandra and Ron Bueckert are faithful Stewards.
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Ron Bueckert and Jess Tyler confer with Cheif Haynie
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Chris Boothe hiked a steep embankment into Black Canyon Wash to pick up this illegally dumped tire. Watershed health is a priority for Chris.
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More landscaping debris goes into the big roll-off dumpster.
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Volunteers heft landscaping debris into the loader bucket.
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Heave, ho, here we go!
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Charles Mackey brought his own truck to help. Charles has been cleaning up the Ogden Ranch Road area even before the Stewards arrived on the scene.
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Jim Wixom of the City of Cottonwood volunteered to work on a Saturday to help the Stewards. Cottonwood Street Dept. hauled three loads of metal to B&R
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Stewards volunteer Fred Rees and Clarkdale Police Chief Pat Haynie note names from a pile of illegally dumped household items.
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Virgil Packard helped the Stewards with the Oct. 9 cleanup.
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Virgil, Bob from Scottsdale, Fred and Chief Haynie identify illegal dumpers.
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Virgil, Bob from Scottsdale, Fred and Chief Haynie identify illegal dumpers.
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Jim Wixom of Cottonwood maneuvers the loader toward a full dump truck.
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Jess Tyler and Chief Haynie work hard. Jess did the planning for the Oct. 9 cleanup.
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Charles Mackey
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Now clean, a tributary to the Black Canyon Wash was full of smelly rotten debris, including a discarded dead dog, computer terminals, and more.
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Stewards cleaned up Illegally dumped computers, cathode ray tubes, CPUs, that were tossed into a tributary wash of the Verde river.
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Old tires and batteries are a threat to drinking water in our aquifers, and are illegally dumped into washes that connect to the Verde River.
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More of the same.
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Discarded bedsprings and mattresses galore!
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Thank you Waste Management for your continued support of the Stewards of Public Lands cleanup efforts. We couldn't do it without you!
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Verde District Ranger Tom Bonomo walks the last mile of the Oct. 9 cleanup. He is a tremendous supporter of the Stewards' efforts.
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Students at Daniel Bright Elementary School keep Goddard Road clean.
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