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Thank you!
Your community made their
Footprints Matter
 
January 21, 2012
Soroptimist International of
Gold Canyon
through Footprints Matter to Us
organized 260 volunteers to
accomplish this huge endeavor.
90 tons of trash and debris were
collected throughout 3,000 acres
of State Trust Land adjacent to
Peralta Trails.
SIGC organized this effort by
pre-identifying and mapping
trash locations using GPS
coordinates. On the day
of the event, mobile teams
successfully removed this
incredible amount of trash,
including approximately 200 tires
Community members,
organizations and business
from through-out the Gold
Canyon area showed up at
daybreak to make this
feel-good project happen.
Keep checking back on our
website, pictures of the day
and the work is coming in
on a daily basis.
If you have a great picture or story,
share it with us!
For a full report on this years project and our ongoing efforts click here.
Our hope is to increase public awareness and education regarding the illegal dumping, illegal target shooting, and littering that is taking place in our own backyard. We are asking your help to inform and deter those individuals that don't think the laws of Arizona pertain to them or their illegal activities in our Sonoran Desert. We are seeking individuals and organizations in our community to get and stay involved with the protection and maintenance of these areas. Our hope is to keep them clean.
In 2010, we cleaned up 10 target shooting
sites and 8 of those sites were still pristine in 2011.
In 2011, we cleaned up 3 original 2010 shooting sites, added 4 more different sites and covered 3,000 acres by GPS tracking of trash.
In 2012, we had to re-clean 4 original 2010 target
shooting sites and we added 6 additional target shooting
sites as well as covering the 3,000 acres for misc. trash
and dumping.
This is working!
But we need to continue our efforts. Here is a picture taken January 2011of a site that was cleaned in 2010 by the volunteers.
However, this is the same sight in early January, 2012
 
This website is provided free of charge to the community as a means to educate the public about this ongoing problem And reduce further dumping and littering.
 
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