Earth Day

Earth Day - Thomas Hallock teaches at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. One of his classes, taught once a year, is a Nature Writing class. The first time the class was taught, the class held a clean-up of Salt Creek, a waterway that runs from Lake Maggiore to Bayboro Harbor.

Sign from Earth Day cleanup, 2011.



Tom Hallock, talking to the class before the clean up.





Tom Hallock jumped in to help with the Salt Creek clean up.



Nearing the end of the clean up



Some of the garbage collected in the hour-and-a-half on the water.



Tired of garbage in the environment yet?

Earth Day

Earth Day - Tom Hallock (also seen here) teaches a nature writing class at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. The photos here are from his 2011 class's Earth Day clean-up at Bartlett Park, several blocks from the USFSP campus. Salt Creek touches Bartlett Park, so, of course, the semester-long clean-up of the creek figured in predominantly to the day's festivities.

Poster: You Are Here



Tom Hallock listens to a question from one of the students before several groups start the clean up.



Tom helping with the Salt Creek part of the day's clean-up.



A group of students head off to clean up part of Salt Creek's shoreline.



Some of the students took off on kayaks and row boats to assist in cleaning up the waterway.



How much garbage was picked up in the few hours that the class was here? This is only part of it...



...and here's some more of the day's garbage. If we all clean up after ourselves, maybe some day, this won't be necessary.

On Salt Creek

On Salt Creek - On Earth Day, 2011, Tom Hallock's Nature Writing class (USFSP) went to Bartlett Park in St. Petersburg to continue cleaning up parts of Salt Creek. Here, Hallock and one of the students have just launched in one of the many rowboats and kayaks to clean up the creek.