Friends of the Trail

We conduct cleanups on public lands and waterways for the betterment of the environment and to the benefit of the public by improving overall forest health, aesthetics, water quality and habitat, as well as creating a more welcome recreational environment for people to enjoy. We also provide a place for court assigned community service to help to fulfill their obligation to society with a place to serve their hours, benefiting the public good. Utilizing this help as well as other volunteers, we removed 99 tons of illegally dumped trash in Washington State, excluding appliances and other large items also removed/recycled, such as tires, metals, RV's/trailers. Examples of items we remove and properly dispose of include car parts, furniture, camping debris, plastics, bottles, cans, abandoned homeless encampment debris, household trash, target shooting debris, wood product, yard waste, and contractor dumped debris. We utilized 1,740 volunteer hours.