Public Lands Day is the largest single-day volunteer effort on America’s public lands where hundreds of thousands of volunteers come together to enjoy service in nature.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area is recruiting volunteers for its National Public Lands Day event Sept. 28 at Six Mile Cove, a popular beach on Lake Mohave that needs a little extra care after a busy summer.
The cove was selected as an official “Hot Spot” by the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics. Hot Spot locations are popular and beautiful outdoor areas across the country that have experienced heavy recreational use and visitor-created impacts, including excessive trash, damage to vegetation, trail erosion, disturbance to wildlife and more.
Six Mile Cove, located just south of Searchlight, Nevada, is one of 19 locations selected in 2019.
“By identifying and working with Hot Spots and their communities across the country, Leave No Trace can rapidly move toward recovering and protecting the places we all cherish for generations,” said Dana Watts, executive director of Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics.
A team of traveling trainers will spend a week in the park to meet with stakeholders and develop ways to change visitor use patterns at Six Mile Cove to enhance outdoor etiquette. The week will culminate with a volunteer cleanup from 9-11:30 a.m. Sept. 28.
Water and snacks will be provided to volunteers thanks to support from Get Outdoors Nevada (the official Lake Mead friends group) and the National Environmental Education Foundation. To register for the cleanup, visit https://getoutdoorsnevada.org/events. To learn more about Leave No Trace and the seven principles, visit https://lnt.org/why/7-principles/. To learn more about National Public Lands Day, visit https://www.neefusa.org/npld.
