Members from Big Bear Professional Fire Fighters Association joined forces to clean up the town. At 9 am on January 13th fire fighters met at the community church with gloves on and bags in hand to walk around picking up trash and broken sleds.
Thousands of visitors come up to enjoy the snow but leave their trash behind. Leaving trash behind is not only an eye sore, it’s bad for our wildlife. Some of the 20 bags of debris picked up included broken sleds, lost snow clothes, dirty baby diapers, food wrappers and waste.
Such debris is not only damaging to the Big Bear environment, it has the potential of being blown onto area highways where it can become a safety risk for passing motorists. It is so critical that all recreationists and road users clean up after themselves.
Packing out what you pack in not only helps preserve our Big Bear Valley environment, it also helps ensure that our fellow recreationists and drivers have safe and clean areas to visit and travel.
There are trash dumpsters set up all along the roads and in high sledding traffic areas. They are intended for people to put their broken sleds in one place to make collection easier.
Ideally, we would want people to take their sleds home, whether broken or not. Tie down trash when transporting it to the dump sites.