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Sorry, my friends, but I refuse to even try to take this little project seriously. So the San Pedro gets three weeks of attention -- how about the other forty-nine weeks of the year?

Note that none of the tree-huggers have raised a peep about this. Where is the Sierra Club? Where is the Center for Biodiversity for whom the San Pedro is a sacred place?

Where is the Nature Conservancy? They actually run the San Pedro and Ramsey Canyon preserves -- and never say word one about the problem or make any attempts at cleaning up the mess.

Local citizens' groups have already been tackling this problem, giving up their weekends to clean up the worst around their houses, and it never ends. The best estimate I've seen from government sources is that each illegal jettisons about eight to ten pounds of solid trash by the time he meets his ride. Extrapolating from last year's apprehension numbers and estimating how many more got away, that means that we potentially have six million pounds of trash that needs to be picked up just in this county. Remember, more is added every day and night.

And the solution is to get our kids to volunteer to go clean up this crap? Literally, crap? In the summer heat of Arizona? If you did this to prisoners every liberal boohoo in the country would be filing lawsuits.

(Oh, yeah -- don't worry too much about the turds floating out around Lewis Springs. The San Pedro flows northwards out of Mexico into Arizona. A few more turds really isn't making it measurably more undrinkable. Thats why the illegals carry bottled water.)