On Saturday, April 26. AMSA held their anuual Beach Clean-Up event on Assateague Island. As you can see from the photo's, a fair amount of debris was removed from the beach. Most people probably think those big rigs with slide-in campers just show up at Assateague and ride out on the beach for the weekends during the summer, then leave. Well this show an entirely different side of things. These folks care about the island and take great steps to take care of it. That's not all. AMSA donated $50,000.00, partnered with an organization known as Assateague Coastal Trust, who donated $10,000, and an anonymous party who donated $5000. These donations, which amounted to $65,000 will be matched by the Federal govt. for a total of $130,000. Some of these funds will be used to complete production on “Back to the Wild”, a film about Assateague’s wild horses, and complete a marine life exhibit which will include aquaria for the new visitor center scheduled to begin construction shortly. It's good to know that so many private citizens and organizations care enough to maintain such a fantastic natural resource.
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Well done gang.
one note. The tires in the truck are not from littering. They are from tire reefs. In the 50's, thousands of tires were connected by steel cables, and sunk into a reef. Needless to stay, the steel deteriorated, and now we find the tires with the holes cut in them everywhere.
Interesting facts about the tires. Thanks but more like the tires may be from tire reefs would have been a better post. I mean unless you have a GPS on them. To add to that, no one said the tires were litter, they said, "As you can see from the photo's, a fair amount of debris was removed from the beach. Most people probably think those big rigs with slide-in campers just show up at Assateague and ride out on the beach for the weekends during the summer, then leave. Well this show an entirely different side of things. These folks care about the island and take great steps to take care of it."
The whole thing is if the things are on our beaches they are litter...........
Either way AMSA does a major part in protecting our wonderful resource. GREAT JOB AMSA
it does no good, the feds keep trying to keep us off the beach. We can't even drive on Assateague Virginia and we are the best Keepers of the Beach.
You can drive on Virginia. The vehicles thay are permitted are limited to I believe 15. That is unless there are those Piping Plover nesting then the beach will be closed and re-open once the birds are bigger.
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