Pebble Plain Cleaned – Moonloaf Dump Removed
Over 150 volunteers from a variety of organizations spent the morning cleaning up decades of dumped trash on US Forest Service Pebble Plain land West of Sugarloaf on August 28, 2010. It’s amazing what a motivated group of people can do on a Saturday morning. Forty tons of trash, including 6 cars, 2 boats, 1 motorhome, and countless couches were removed from the San Bernardino National Forest land, sometimes referred to as “Moonloaf.” For decades this area had been used as an illegal dumping ground.
The Forest Clean Up was an impressive community effort that included volunteers and staff from: The Big Bear Valley Trails Foundation, San Bernardino National Forest Association, US Forest Service, Americorps, SBNFA’s OHV Program, Big Bear Mountain Resorts, So Cal Broncos, Big Bear High School, Lindley Log Homes, and Big Bear Disposal. Thanks to everyone who helped!
Pebble Plain habitat is very unique and very rare, containing several Federally threatened species. The only place it occurs on Earth is in the San Bernardino Mountains, and the Pebble Plains in the Moonloaf area are among the biggest and best specimens.
The Forest Clean Up was an impressive community effort that included volunteers and staff from a variety of local organizations.
One of the large loaders that helped, compliments of Big Bear Mountain Resorts.
Six cars, 2 boats, and a motorhome were among the trash pulled out of the Forest.
When you started looking, you found trash everywhere. For years this area had been used as an illegal dumping ground.
Americorps Crews assisting with the Clean Up.
Lots of trucks and heavy equipment allowed the volunteers to remove a great volume of trash quickly.
Special thanks to Big Bear Disposal for their help with the dumpsters.
Thanks to Brad Lindley (of Lindley Log Homes) for his large boom lift that was used to remove some of the cars.
Five 50-yard roll-off dumpsters, totaling about 40 tons, were filled with trash and debris.
How it should look - nearby pristine Pebble Plain.
It was nice to see this come together after 2 years of trying to organize the claen up that was initiated by one of the volunteer members of the San Bernardino National Forest Association Off Highway Vehicle Volunteer program, and also nice to see both the trails foundation and a large group of the off road community work together to help preserve the health of our forest.
Thanks to all that helped out by taking their Saturday to remove other peoples trash from the forest,
Danny Bogner
Big Bear Coordinator
SBNFA OHV volunteer program
So Cal Broncos Liaison to SBNF Adopt-A-Trail program
A huge THANK YOU to Danny Bogner for organizing this event. It took a lot of time and effort and over a year of planning to bring this event together. Great Job Danny!
A year ago I got lost up there driving around to “explore”. I was so shocked to see the trash (and couches!) etc.!!
I did find my way home, thank you—
What a grand thing you all did! hooray!
wow that is incredible. Nice to see what team work can accomplish! congratulations to all of you!
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