Well, it all started when my wife and me went on a trip to a canyon in the Gurney area Called the Pottato River Canyon. We always loved this area because of its natural spectacular beauty.
We had started down the canyon to the stream below, when we got to the bottom we began to follow the edge of the stream away from the water falls.
As we started around the first corner we could here the screams of a child, farther down stream, this got us to step up our pace. When we got to a area in the canyon we could see a large man with no shirt on, and a woman kneeling down holding a child, as we got closer, I yelled over to them and asked, what was going on there. The man replyed that his daughter was hurt and needed medical attention.
As we got up to them we could see that it was a small girl in the womans arms and the mans shirt was rapped around the girls feet, the shirt was soaked in blood. I asked the man what happened, he said that he and his wife were fishing the stream and there daughter was playing in the stream bare foot, when she screemed and fell back into the water, they rushed to her and saw that her feet had been cut to shreds.
I then told the family to follow me I knew a shortcut to the top of the canyon, they followed.
The man offered me money for my time, I refused it, and told him to get her to the hostpital as soon as possible. they left.
My wife and I went back to the area to check the stream out and see what could have done such damage, after a couple of hours my wife yelled over to me that I should see this.
When I got to her, I saw what had caused the childs wounds, Someone thought it would be fun to breakup a case of beer bottles in the stream.
On shore was the empty case carton and the shore was littered with spent 22 cal, shells.
It took my wife and myself over 9 hours to clean up as much of the glass as we could find.
It was then we decided that somthing had to be done, so this will not happen again.
3 weeks later we started the R.E.P. Lures Cleanup Project.
