Labor Day Trash Pick-up on Masonboro

This from the Cape Fear chapter for the Surfrider Foundation, maybe inspired by a story we linked to here earlier about an earlier cleanup (Cool crew cleans mountains of junk on Masonboro).

Reducing Trash on Masonboro Island

If you have some spare time this holiday weekend, please volunteer it towards this effort. We are passing on this message from our friends at the North Carolina Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve.

On Labor Day weekend the North Carolina Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve will be creating a public education blitz to reduce trash and inappropriate activity at Masonboro Island. We need your help!

We’ll be setting up at the public boat ramps at Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and Trails End to talk with folks as they head out onto the water. We’ll give them some do’s and don’ts for visiting the Reserve and a trash bag or two if they need them. The plan is to host these information booths from 10 – 3 each day of the holiday weekend.

We’ll need a lot of volunteers to pull this off. We’re asking people who are concerned about the island and want to help protect it to sign up for a shift (or two…or three).

And we’ll need a handful of special people to take on the position of Lead for a site for a day.

All the details —-

Three locations:

Wrightsville Beach boat ramp
Carolina Beach boat ramp
Trails End boat ramp

Three days:

Saturday, August 30
Sunday, August 31
Monday, September 1

Three shifts:

9:45 – 11:45
11:30 – 1:30
1:15 – 3:15

Two positions:

Lead Volunteer –
Set up and tear down booth
Be available (at least by phone) all day to be #1 go-to person

( I will be available all day each day, but can’t be everywhere at once…)

Boat ramp Volunteer –

Work at least one two-hour shift
Talk to people about the Reserve, its rules of use and appropriate trash disposal

Have fun – meet cool people – help protect your island.

Just email or call to sign up. Tell your friends. Distribute this email at will.

Thanks and be safe out there!

Hope Sutton
Stewardship Coordinator & Southern Sites Manager
NC Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve
5600 Marvin K Moss Lane
Wilmington, NC 28409
910-962-2998
www.nccoastalreserve.net
suttonh@uncw.edu

Surfer Sweep- Sat 9/6 9 AM - 1 PM

Come out an join us for our bi-annual Surfer Sweep. This event will take place in Wrightsville Beach (Oceanic Street) and Carolina Beach (meet at the center of the boardwalk). This is a family friendly event. We will have swag for the kids and free food.

Puddle Shuttle will be providing a free shuttle to Masonboro Island to help remove trash after the holiday weekend. Arrive at Oceanic St no later than 9:15 to take part in the Masonboro Island portion of the event. If you have not been to the island before, this is great opportunity to do so.

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One Response to “Labor Day Trash Pick-up on Masonboro”

  1. Ian on September 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 am

    This also from Surfrider:

    Masonboro Island and Law Enforcement

    At the Cape Fear Chapter we pride ourselves in sending out a limited number of email newsletters- we don’t want to overfill your inbox! That being said, we think that this message is important enough to warrant a second newsletter for this week. Make it a great day!

    If you go to Masonboro Island in the near future you will most likely encounter law enforcement officers. These officers are just doing their job and have been called in to reign in the wild partiers that are leaving substantial trash on the island. The officers will be talking to everyone they see out on the island.

    Please be tolerant and cooperative for a little while the NC Coastal Reserve makes a change in how the island is used and by whom. They then intend for things to go back to the old days of it being a mellow place to visit. There is no long term plan to have every person who steps on the island have to report to a police officer, but there is going to be a presence at least for a while.

    Surfers haven’t always had the best treatment from the law and apparently there were already a couple of surfers this past weekend who were not happy about the sheriffs being out there, but it is all for a better future.

    Please be respectful of the officers and the island so that we can continue to use it for many generations to come. Be sure to take your trash out with you as you leave the island.

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