We're going to clean this up, and we need your help! 

What a mess. Seeing all that trash just made me sad. Every time I head out to the woods I ended up coming home with a few bags of someone else's garage. Great thing those guys are doing. Thank for the video

Gorgeous little herd...Thank you for being part of clean up crew.

Thanks for sharing - I’ll be there. I’m a COTA crew leader, so I spend more time building MTB trails in the area, but I spend time every Spring and Fall cleaning abandoned camps around 41 and Anne’s Butte. Awesome that Kevin and Ryan have gotten so many groups involved.

Casey, thank you for posting this interesting clean up efforts that going on all around us. Good message shared.

Thank you all for trying to keep this place nice and clean.... U ROCK!!

For those unfamiliar with these cleanup parties, bring sturdy gloves and footwear. There is often broken glass, sharp metal and sometimes hypodermic needles at these sites in addition to biohazards. If you have additional rakes, hard-rakes and shovels, bring those too! The organizers should have free vouchers for the Knott landfill for anyone volunteering their truck or trailer. These parties are for a great cause and the before & after photos leave you with a great feeling knowing your team made such a difference!

Drove through Bend, many years ago, after delivering a trailer. Looked like a good town, wanted to stop to eat but at that time I was trying to outrun an incoming storm (didn't quite do that ... long story). I believe there is a horse rescue outfit near there. Many of those horses are now therapy horses for emotionally traumatized children. By all I've seen, it is an outfit worthy supporting. Let them know what you want to do out there, they may have people that are interested and willing to provide some "hayburner help." As fun as off road vehicles may be, they can't go in all places a horse can.

THANK you for helping PLS again Casey! What a great cause.

We just had clean up Australia Day two weeks ago. It is a National Day the response is usually amazing. 🇦🇺

God Bless you guys for what you do to help Mother Nature!!!

Jason at Primal Outdoors was recently commenting about this same problem. My comment was : no matter where I've been, from Korea, to Taiwan, to Saudi Arabia, to Kenya, the same thing happens everywhere. Anytime a large group of people get together in the same place they start dumping their trash around them. The bigger the group, the farther out the trash gets spread. It reaffirms my opinion that the larger the group is, the lower their collective IQ becomes.

That's unbelievable what people will do to the wilderness. I love the central Oregon area. I wish I lived closer to help but I'm 4 hours away. I tried to get a friend that rides over there to go with me to share the driving but doesn't look like it's going to work out. I help run a local riding area and know how hard it can be to get volunteers to help. Good luck and great work.

When I was a child my mother would make us children just go around our property outside of our fence and pick up trash. At the time I did not care for doing it but now I do it on my own wherever I'm at. I love Oregon and I'm glad you're doing that. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for helping out Casey! I can’t help but think about how the Deschutes Forest’s housing crisis is Bend’s housing crisis, is Portland’s housing crisis, is America’s housing crisis. We really need massive housing development in our urban cities so that people don’t have to live out in the forest.

This is fantastic. If you never go into nature, you'd be surprised how many people live "Off Grid." They're not homeless; they choose to live that way.

Casey as usual helping people ! Thanx Casey. Stay Warm, Be Safe & Well

You all are awesome! Thank you!

The ORV group I was a member of until I moved out of state used to do cleanup days a few times a year. The turnout would be huge. There would long columns of vehicles hauling trash out. People with pickups or trailers would haul, everyone else would load. I would make a dozen trips with my M416. We presented our clean-up efforts to the state government when an environmentalist group lobbied to shut down ORV access to the land. We won.

Thank you for doing this. There's a similar problem in the National Forests. I've camped in a remote area and I hauled four big bags of trash out of the area and I barely put a dent in the problem.

Good work and thank you. We pickup trash when we go into the forest and make sure our camp site is clean when we leave. I can't make it to this event but I am committed to find the time and make some clean up trips to our local forests. Thanks for the inspiration.

It's just shameful that people will scar the landscape like this. Thank God there's people who care, who want to make this world a better place. Thank you Casey.

I second the comment from the two organizers, Thank You Casey, well done young man! As l said before, You are a very giving! People like you are needed in every town, city and state. All in favor of Casey, say l, l. 👌👍😉 l hope you get a great turn out. Thanks again Casey. 🌨 🌤 🥶 💙 🇨🇦 👨‍🦽 😎.

Being from Coos Bay I’m glad to see others help clean up the forest, dunes and beaches! There’s to many people littering here! Thanks guys!

MAY THE GOOD POWERS OF THE SPIRIT BE WITH YOU-ALL WHO CARE ENOUGH TO HELP & UNDERSTAND THE REASONS FOR THIS ABSOLUTELY NEEDED EVENT (S). 🙏🌲👍💥🎯

Colorado has lost so many trails to flood and fire, that losing more to theives, vandal and uninformed/under-educated users is unbearable … this is a problem that has no boarders, so thank you for these efforts, as they extend beyond Oregon in there positive impact!!

Great contribution, Casey. Thanks for spreading the PLS story.

We out here in Southern Arizona have Tucson Rough Riders.. we go out yearly as well to keep our trails clean So they don't get shut down. If everyone packed out what they packed in plus pick up a little trash themselves things would be a whole lot better...appreciate what you guys are doing!

Like Matt, Paul, Rory, and Heavy D Sparks you are great examples and caring for our wilds. I thank you.

Thank you so much for this Casey! And big, big thank you to PLS! As was said, it's not just about cleaning up for everyone, but it's also about being able to keep having access to these lands. We don't live in Oregon, but I have family who do. Will forward this to them so they can forward it on to others.

Thank You Casey for getting the word out on this event. I expected maybe 50 people would show up but holy helmut there had to be 200+ rigs at Coyote Butte that day! Hats off to PLS and everyone who volunteered!

Sharing to get the word out in hopes that other organizations will connect with these gentlemen! This is amazing!

Casey, I am sure that in your life you have been called a lot of things. Right now, the expression that comes to my mind is: "A Good Man." I have been a subscriber here for a while and it just keeps getting better and better. You care deeply about people, your home, your family, your surroundings, your neighbors, your wilderness areas. I am so humbled to see the things you do and to see your real motivation: Love of neighbor, and I'm pretty sure, love of God. God bless you, your family, and your community! Keep walking your talk!

It's a good thing they do It's so sad you have to do it thanks to the volunteers

Good luck.thanks for everyone going out to clean up. Thanks to the people organizing everything. These are our lands we need to protect them.

Recently moved to the area - I’ll be there!

Great work. As individuals, we always pick up the trash around any campsite we use. It is amazing how 5 minutes of cleanup improves the enjoyment of a campsite. Always leave a site better than you find it.

That’s a noble task y’all are performing. The local Sheriffs department should bring out non violent offenders in the jail and make them earn the meals they are getting fed and help with the cleanup.

Pack in, Pack out! I wish people weren't terrible.

Didn’t watch enough of this to catch whether this was state or federal land. We’ve tried to deal with camps along the Sandy River by Troutdale, and we found the state (DSL), county, and even the Sheriffs have been nothing but obstacles in addressing what has turned out to be a environmental disaster with upwards of 70 people (no doubt way more by now), in a flood plain no less. There’s trash, assaults, stolen material (fortunately not many vehicles), drug paraphernalia... it’s a mess. A local mayor penned an op-ed threatening those who are trying to get this addressed with arrest, but these are the same officials who do nothing but let public land get trashed. Of course, the Portland area proper has camps along every wide spot with stolen and parted-out vehicles everywhere. Good for you for getting these places cleaned up!

I live in NY and access to land has been systematically cut off for decades due to the few that thinks it's ok to trash other people's property. If I wasn't on the other side of the country I'd be there with you, good luck and thank you

I will never understand. Thank you Casey and crew for helping with these types of situations.

Casey your a hero in so many different levels I personally thank you for what you do. Unfortunately it don't always work as planned, a few years ago a twister hit the city next to us and destroyed many homes so the wife and I had volunteered to help until we found out the people that where hit were so angree which was understandable but they took it out on the people that was trying to help buy damaging their trucks and trailers several trucks and a few trailers so we backed out. I'm proud of you for all you do God bless you guys and as always be safe 👍

Great group there, more people need to do this kind of thing! Many more people need to account for their trash and abandoned stuff! Public lands, for all to use, for all to take good care of. If I was anywhere close to their I’d be there. And I can barely walk a hundred feet before I can’t feel my legs. Severe back issues limits my mobility. But where I go, I leave nothing but tire prints. As my late wife would say, if it don’t grow there or live there, don’t put it there. She had people riding with her in the car, they would throw something out the window. My wife would turn around go back and make them pick it up. Even on the interstate. It’s really simple, be responsible for your own presence and what you leave behind!

Casey, thank you for helping to get the word out about this event! Was great to see an impressive turnout this weekend!

Casey, I sure wish I could come out on the 26th, by the way is my birthday, but since I live in Jacksonville, Florida I don't think it will be possible. I just want to say I've been watching your channel for pretty much the whole winter months and it just amazes me with everything that you do. From patrolling your neighborhood roads and making sure they are dragged so that you and your neighbors have safe roads to drive on, to all the recovery that you have done throughout the season and now with this clean up that you are going to do to keep your woods beautiful is just amazing. By watching the video it seems like there's a great group of guys that have gotten together to help keep your community and others clean for like you said not only for people to Camp but also for the habitat for the animals and also to keep the animals safe. Keep up the good work as I feel you need to run for some type of political office so that it would make it easier for you to get things done in your counties and even maybe the state. I have to say I would love to be able to come out and meet you in person because you are a mentor to many people. Please don't stop making your videos as they are a pleasure to watch and I look forward to seeing each and every one of them. I have to say what you put together for John the veteran is so awesome. I wish I could have donated towards that fund but I am disabled due to diabetes and have recently had the last of my toes on my right foot removed. So money is tight for me right now. But once I am able to save up enough I will be purchasing one of your RED hoodies, so please make sure you hold onto a 3XL for your Floridian subscriber.

Casey its great to see how community minded you are.you volunteer to rescue fw wheelers introuble and help john and other veterans .god bless u and your family and all people u hang with.👍🇺🇸🙏

Great collaboration efforts to help keep our planet clean. It's highly appreciated! If I was anywhere near you I would be there but you are a couple of states away. Thanks Casey for everything you do for your community!

This really a thing that has happened in the last 30 years, maybe escalated. We camped and recreated in those areas and never saw such a level of disrespect. You are correct about losing access to that area. There was over 900 miles of usable motorized trails, I understand there are less than 300 miles now, that was initiated by a whole different non user’s group.

Despite the circumstances, this looks like a really fun and rewarding adventure. Thanks for doing what you do and the energy you put in.

Amazing!

I wish I lived in your area, I live in Florida, I would be there in a heartbeat. I’m going to find out if there any groups in Florida that do what all of you do out there in Oregon. I would love to be able to help, we are so blessed with the public land that we have and I don’t want to see it destroyed. Take care, stay safe.

Thank you and everyone for preparing this endeavor. Beautiful views. Looking forward to your next video

Great job Casey and crew, I have been trying to start something here in western SD focusing on the garbage that some shooters are leaving behind, I don't want them to stop us from being able to go and shoot.

Well done guys, a job welllllllllll done!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🇬🇧

You are such a godsend to this planet🌎. Thank you for all your good works💝.

Thank you ALL for Keeping the Forest Areas CLEAN after thoes that Live like animals but have access to Human amenitys make a MESS... May GOD Bless your Missions of Helping others and Nature... Thank you Again 💜🙏

Great post today. It certainly is amazing, but not unexpected that people trash their environment. It is truly a testament to the Public Land Stewards and Cascade Heavy Rescue to spend their time cleaning up these messes. Good work guys.

YAY! Thanks for a great video!

What a mess, thank god for people like you. Wish some of the places in California were taken care of like that.

You all amazing! What a super org. ❤️🇦🇺🇺🇸

Great job Casey and all of the volunteers!! Some people are just pure selfish and disrespectful pigs to our outdoors. Absolutely no excuse particularly in this case for such an awful mess. I hope the perps. were held accountable and consequences rendered!!

Thanks for the video. I live here as well. I love our piblic lands and can’t wait to help clean up next weekend. See you there!!!

Awe thank you guys for all you do

What a great cause and thank you. Oregon was one of the most beautiful states and it's fallen to pathetic politicians who don't care about anything but themselves. You wouldn't be doing this if the current politicians weren't in office. You can say the people that are living like this care, they don't. If they did this wouldn't be an issue. Stop making excuses for these people.

Awesome! Central Oregon is so beautiful, thanks for putting in the work to keep it that way

thank you all who ever helps thank you Casey

Great stuff, Casey. Keep up the good work!

Good job, Casey, way to help out the community and the environment. Awesome video.

-- Yeah, up here in the rust belt, we have the same problem. We also follow the saying: You take out more than you bring in. Good cause you've got there.

Great to see you getting behind this project!

Hunting camps. You see this all the time. Tried cleaning up areas around Tenmile Oregon three times back in 2006 and was told by the law to leave it. After the last time we snuck in and cleaned the area up and snuck out. We felt it was a shame we had to even sneak in to begin with, and then be told to stay out of our forest and to leave the trash alone !!!

Really cool that you're taking part of this. I have been a part of several homeless camps around the country, but I've always been fortunate enough to have a vehicle at those times and always hauled off our trash, or worst case buried it deep. But I know that isn't the norm. Now that I've got an improved life I volunteer with local trail groups and do maintenance and cleanup several times a year. Goal is to become a forest service member and let that sort of be a career.

I have shared this video . Hope you get lots of volunteers. To help out on the clean up. .

Good luck with this project. It's a never ending project, too many people are slobs! I found a pre1919 Budweiser bottle picking up trash after fishing once

Thank you so much ! If i was in ur area you could not keep me away from that clean up !

Casey, I posted this in a group that im a part of that I’m sure you have heard of, gambler 500 in affiliation with sons of Smokey and we do tons of public land clean ups! I’m hoping my sharing of your video will get some more people out there! See you all next weekend! Thanks for everything Casey

I'd be up for coming down and helping with more advanced notice, cannot make next weekend. Might be able to bring others along as well for future events this worthy. Thanks for sharing!

I love the cleanup, needs to happen in more place.

Casey, this video finally got my attention about where you work at. I went to see a cousin I hadn't seen in over forty years about, two years ago. She lives in Ontario, Oregon. Actually about half way between Ontario and Bend on the north side of the road that runs between Ontario and Bend. She drove a school bus out of Bend from her twenties until retirement. She took me through Bend to show me where she had worked. I now have a good idea where you put in the better part of your time. I am in Colorado right now but am going to our place in Arizona in the morning. Sick of the snow 🌨️❄️🌨️ Keep up the good work.

Thanks you guys🥰

It's bad here in southern ore also. I'd like to figure a way to do this here. Gates are going up everywhere. I work as a watchman for logging and the things I see are real bad. Thanks for doing this.

People have been leaving garbage in the woods around Bend as long as I can remember. Back in the 70's we found a 68 Vette under a bunch of brush on the SW side of Water Tank hill (Overturf Butte), naturally, it was stolen, but we'd always find crap that people would dump, particularly around the pumice pits. I understand that all of that area on the west side is overwhelmed with subdivisions now... Problem solved. I was out around the east side of Bend back in October of last year, and couldn't believe the amount of crap laying around in some places. A bunch of homeless makeshift shelters, and loads of trash everywhere... People were living in them, and it was kinda creepy. Good job taking the time to clean up these messes.

Thank You Casey! I'm too far away here in Tennessee, but I could easily help here. Thanks for the inspiration!

Thanks for bringing attention to the ongoing trash issue in the back country. I am overlanding in Six Rivers/Smith River area and pick up trash everywhere I go out here. It's great to see the effort of everybody to keep these public lands open to all. Leave No Trace. ❣🌎😎

Nice I use to help do this every year. Signed up again.

Nice to see a full description of a Volunteer Call. Especially in enough time for a person to sign up. Video nicely done. Enjoy your videos with responsible adult interaction.

We need more people like Casey and we also need better education and enforcement of the litter laws. As casey said, many people are just basically lazy and don't care. Our favorite target practice area on public lands in central Arizona is now closed because people rather than be satisfied with paper targets or steel silhouettes, haul old water heaters and televisions out there, shoot them up and just leave them. I used to go out with my dump trailer and try to clean up, but they were trashing faster than I could clean up.

It would seem the missing arm of this effort would be to find private pilot's with aircraft , ultra-lights or para sails to be able to do searches of large area from the air that then are handled by clean up crews . You could reach out to someone like Trent Palmer who has a number of friends with bush planes .

Casey, thank all of you for doing this clean up. That is a very beautiful state. God bless y’all. 👍🙏❤️

Love to see cleanup and wildlife . . . not much use complaining about litter, just clean it up. Thanks for helping the environment. Cheers.

Aussome work guys. You make so we can continue to use our nations resources. Safe travels and roads. Brian and Cindy, xtreambydesign with passion.

Wish I lived closer to be able to come and help. Thanks for doing the clean up. Mom Nature says Thank you!

That's a good thing for community service I live in Arizona so can't go there but good job great communication indication and I hope you get all the people that you need

Good luck with the clean. Bit far to travel from Aus but there in spirit. 👍👍🇦🇺👍👍👍

I’m from Montana so I’m the first to make jokes about Oregon but to be completely Honest Oregon has to be in the top Ten most Beautiful Places on Earth so God Bless Keep Up the Good Work

Thank goodness for people who care!! Thank you guys for organizing these cleanups and thanks to all the volunteers who will do the work. God bless you all.

The government could make this better by helping people who are priced out of their life by rising home and rent prices. They also could help the state's clean up budget out by putting out 40 yard dumpsters at turn out areas so people could bring their garbage and dump it for free. Virginia did this many years ago and found their required clean up resources, ( ie; people. vehicles, and equipment required to go out and clean up illegal dumped garbage) dropped a great deal. You and these folks are doing a great service and we thank you.

Casey, I wrote out a long rant but erased it, You're welcome. :D Thank you for being the caring kind soul that you are. Even helping out those poor kids at the end. :D:D:D Wish I could come out but I am too far away, (TN.). Thoughts and prayers be with you and the crew though. Thank you and God Bless.

Great job Casey

Very good job, Casey!