Rivers Alive clean-up volunteers survey beaver dams in Rocky Branch behind Mary Street Park. In addition to picking up nearly 200 pounds of trash, the volunteers removed two beaver dams causing erosion to the stream bank. From left are, Genevieve Summers, Justin Ellis, and Andrea Harper.
Local volunteers braved the early morning October chill Saturday to lend a helping hand to Mother Nature. Now Habersham photojournalist, Johnny Bailey, captured these images from the 2014 Rivers Alive Clean-up campaign.
In the above photo, Rivers Alive clean-up volunteers survey beaver dams in Rocky Branch behind Mary Street Park. In addition to picking up nearly 200 pounds of trash, the volunteers removed two beaver dams causing erosion to the stream bank. From left are, Genevieve Summers, Justin Ellis, and Andrea Harper. (click on photos to enlarge images)
Duncan Hughes, left, talks with Genevieve Summers, center, and Andrea Harper about areas that need trash picked up around the Soque River at Pitts Park in Clarkesville. Ten local volunteers braved chilly weather Saturday morning to participate in the statewide Rivers Alive Clean-up sponsored by the state Environmental Protection Division outreach program. Hughes, the watershed coordinator for the Soque partnership coordinated the event locally. The group also cleaned a stretch of Rocky Branch along Mary Street Park. Among the debris removed from the waterways and surrounding area were a chair, car parts, plastic bottles, and aluminum cans.
Volunteers Clarke Bailey, left, and Bob Brooksher pick up trash along Rocky Branch in an area behind the Lion’s Club soccer field in Clarkesville. Brooksher’s son’s dog, River, accompanied them.
Beatrice York of Clarkesville picks up trash in Pitts Park.
Rivers Alive clean-up volunteers in Clarkesville were, back row, from left, Andrea Harper, Bob Brooksher, Duncan Hughes, Justin Ellis, and Clarke Bailey. Front row, from left, are Elizabeth Hughes, Charles Hughes, Beatrice York, Shelby Whitlow, and Genevieve Summers.
