Super Bowl Sunday Crane Creek Clean Up

[Bamboozle]

The annual Crane Creek Clean Up will happen again this year on the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, February 3rd. Sponsored by, among others, one the regional Trout Unlimited chapters.

We will meet at 8:00am at the Wire Road area north of town near the railroad bridge for coffee/donuts and then we decide where to go from there.

A great opportunity to meet fellow Crane Creek obsessives, to give something back to the creek we all love and burn off some calories before all the beer and chips later in the day...

If at any time later in the year anyone complains about trash on Crane Creek on this forum and you weren't at the clean up I will let you have it with both barrels!

[Harps]

I applaud the effort.

The other recent thread about spawning makes me wonder if there's a better time than early Feb. to do extensive cleanup efforts? How much wading and stream bed disturbance is done is done to remove trash and debris directly from the stream?

It amazes and saddens me to see how many tires there are in the stream bed. A buddy and I talked about this last time we were on the stream and are planning on making an effort to remove some of these tires. I need to talk to MDC about what should be done with tires if removed from the bed of the stream because I'm not hauling them home. I'm willing to pull a few out every once in a while and stack them at the parking lot if MDC will dispose of them.

[Bamboozle]

Good points and concerns.

I don't recall any of us actually getting into the creek during one of these clean-ups. Too cold and no-one's wearing waders.

One of the great things about doing your cleaning up as part of this effort is that MDC co-operates to have the trash hauled away...including tires.

Last year we pulled out about 20 tires from the new MDC land just opposite the ball fields.

Usually the focus is on getting trash etc to prevent it eventually washing in to the creek. Obviously it's a never-ending task but what's the alternative?

[chris in nixa]

The annual Crane Creek Clean Up will happen again this year on the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, February 3rd. Sponsored by, among others, one the regional Trout Unlimited chapters.

We will meet at 8:00am at the Wire Road area north of town near the railroad bridge for coffee/donuts and then we decide where to go from there.

A great opportunity to meet fellow Crane Creek obsessives, to give something back to the creek we all love and burn off some calories before all the beer and chips later in the day...

If at any time later in the year anyone complains about trash on Crane Creek on this forum and you weren't at the clean up I will let you have it with both barrels!

Is there a 2014 version of this?? I'm in!