boykazoid
Registered: December 2009
City/Town/Province: Pearland
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Waking up at 5:00 am was not the hard part of my conservation project it was trying to get all my friends up and moving as well. But, with a little help from coffee and donuts we were all on the road as planned headed to an area of the world that is much near and dear to my heart; Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My passion for this city and surrounding areas started when I moved out of the state of Louisiana six years ago to relocate in the bustling city of Houston, Texas. Here in Texas where I currently reside there is not much more than concrete buildings, highways of idling cars, and paved sidewalks. Baton Rouge was also a focus of mine because the hurricane season has shown to be harsh there. A hurricane disassembles everything leaving chaos and unwanted garbage to lie wherever it lands. This has a tendency to back up water ways and block water from naturally flowing. Our efforts were intended to reverse what hurricane Katrina had done to the city and its water. These efforts were more than appreciated by pedestrians who continuously thanked us as we walked up down the shores of Campus Lake hauling large, heavy duty, black bags full of cigarette butts, bottles, cans, plastic ware, fast-food containers, other plastic items, tires, appliances, and construction debris. Foreign liquids dripped down our legs and into our socks; not once were there complaints of it. We continuously worked picking up random objects along the shore line. At the start of our project there were depressingly low levels of garbage in provided trash cans marked “please help us keep our lakes beautiful” but even more floating in the river. After however, we were forced to lay our garbage bags on the ground next to the over flowing trash that now was in the cans like it was intended. Overall, I had an amazing feeling of accomplishment. Nothing beats helping out the world we live in and the wildlife that depends on us to keep their ecosystems thriving, that is why I have made a choice to do that for the rest of my life. This semester I will begin an exciting education in natural resource science water conservation and will continue to promote the idea “what is on our land will end up in our water.”
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