Silver Spring, MD 20914
Welcome to the Neighbors of the Northwest Branch
October 28, 2017, at Burnt Mills
The beginning
The cleanup had the enthusiastic assistance of a group of White Oak Middle schoolers, as well as adults who use the trail. After signing in, they choose gloves and bags provided by Montgomery Parks.
The triumphant conclusion
After 2 hours' work, some of the 30 participants show off their 12 bags of trash and 13 bags of recyclables. Some plastic bottles are too dirty to recycle, but many can be. Amazingly, litterers usually carefully put the caps back on before tossing!
NW Branch Cleanups from the Archives
Interesting find at Burnt Mills
Pterosaurs evidently went extinct rather recently and can still be found when we do cleanups.
Burnt Mills 2013
Board member Suzanne Donohue and Carolyn Hush pull trash from the NWB.
Navigating the boulders, handing up the litter.
St. Camillus Youth Group de-littered the slopes behind the Northwest Park Apartments just above the NW Branch.
![Eric Rogner comments: "Almost every tree dangling close to the river was filled with plastic bags, always the biggest pain in the [**@#] to pick up."](http://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/640e551d-5637-4f80-9c58-19c20a303ce0/55852ad6-7bea-4876-8db7-160ddb7ba452.jpg/:/rs=w:100,h:70,cg:true,m/cr=w:100,h:70,a:cc)
