Updated July 8, 2025 01:12PM

'USFS Region 5'
One anti-litter activist reached his breaking point this year after picking up one too many pieces of trash on public land–and organizing a larger volunteer cleanup at a national forest swimming hole that resulted in six truckloads of garbage being hauled away. His next move: mobilizing a team of skunks to help him keep the swimming hole site litter free.