Trailer for upcoming Okanagan Forest Task Force documentary.
This volunteer organization has removed 1.3 million pounds of garbage and scrap metal from the backcountry. The group dismantled a major encampment outside of OK Falls a few years ago, and took a staggering amount out of the Peachland watershed recently. Most of the work to date has been in the Kelowna area with Kelowna area volunteers, but there have been locals interested in forming a South Okanagan group.
If you download the OFTF app on your phone, you can easily report a dump site. Enter description and photos, and it will automatically upload it to OFTF including GPS when you get into cell range.
Unfortunately for the leader and his family, they have been targeted by the occasional individual who objects to what the group is doing. They now have cameras on their home, and his wife's truck was keyed in Kelowna recently. The group has a good relationship with both the RCMP and Conservation Service. They may talk to someone in a trashy encampment, but don't start clean-up on an active encampment.
They have a major fundraiser every year, and they now have game cameras in strategic areas in the Kelowna back country - people have been busted for dumping boats etc in the bush,
Some of the stuff on their FB page is unbelievable. Yes people do really trash the back country,
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