TEXAS TOWNSHIP -- The Bucks Cove Rod and Gun Club owns around 1200 acres of woodlands along the Lackawaxen River near Honesdale.
The beautiful scenery attracts something ugly. People who break the law by dumping tires and trash, even items like luggage.
Jerry Korb said, "We are an isolated road in Wayne County and for some reason people find this stretch of road, they use it as a magnet to dump tires, trash, stuff they don't need."
Twice a year the club holds a clean-up day, but it's been a challenge to stay ahead of the litterbugs.
Then the Pennsylvania Environmental Commission offered to help, loaning dumpsters and paying to haul away the junk. This is one of two dozen illegal dump sites the organization is targeting across Susquehanna, Pike, and Wayne counties.
Pioneer Construction also pitched in loaning heavy machinery.
More than 40 club members and volunteers participated, and the work paid off. This year's fall clean-up bagged triple the usual amount of trash.
Club President John Feik said, "We have three 40-yard dumpsters we have pretty much full today, plus 54 tires we picked up today [Sunday]."
It will take more than a clean-up day to stop illegal dumping here. Special signs are now posted, and members are planning to protect the land with cameras and patrols.
Korb added, "People will get caught, we will start going through the trash looking for names, addresses, and phone numbers and that information will be supplied to the state police."
