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NEFGA Projects
Recycling Bins
The NEFGA Fishing Line Recycling program was started in early 2008. The idea came from one of our members who had seen it done in other places around the country and thought it would be a good fit for the Nebraska Fish and Game Association.
The program works through clubs, companies and other concerned outdoor's folks sponsoring fishing line recycling bins which we than place and staff for line collection at public lakes and parks around the state.
Canfield's, Scheels Sports in Omaha and the Crete Youth in Governance Council are a few of our current active sponsors that helped get this program off the ground. In 2008, we placed 24 bins at lakes and parks.
In the fall of 2008, we gathered up all the line collected from the bins and sent back 4 nearly full shipping boxes of line back to Berkley for recycling into underwater fish habit, which Berkley then makes available for placement in lakes to enhance the fisheries.
We currently have bins at the following areas. Some sponsors are listed ini parenthesis.
- Two Rivers SRA - 2 (Canfield's)
- Louisville SRA - 2 (Cathy Abbot, etc / Catfishsteve)
- Cottonmill SRA - 1
- Ft. Kearney - 1
- Prairie View - 1 (Scheels)
- Walnut Creek - 1 (Scheels)
- Zorinsky Lake - 2 (Muskie's Inc)
- Wehrspann Lake - 2 (Scheels)
- Swan Creek - 1 (Crete Youth in Governance)
- Olive Creek - 1 (Crete Youth in Governance)
- Walnut Creek 2A (Crete) - 1 (Crete Youth in Governance)
- Victoria Springs SP - 1 (Sommer Family)
- Melham Park - 1 (Computers Plus)
- Rotary Lake - 1 (Armsrong Floors)
- North Park Lake, Holdredge - 1 (Office Solutions Associates)
- Ft. Kearney #2 - 1 (Michael O'Brien, New York Life)
- Davis Creek, N. Loup - 1 (Harold F. "Buddle Belle Memorial")
- Holmes Lake Park - 2 (Colby Ridge Popcorn / Luckies Lounge)
- Cunningham - 2 (Scheels)
- West Dodge - 2
- Lonestar NRD - 1 (Mulligan BASS Club)
- Branched Oak Lake - 3 (BMS - 2 / Scheels)
- Oak Lake - 3 (BMS Management - 2 / Stanley's Compete Cleaning Service)
- Bowling Lake - 2 (BMS Management)
- Pawnee - 4 (BMS Management - 2 / O&o Auto Sales / Brothers Not Forgotten)
- Yankee Hill - 2 (BMS Management)
- Wagon Train - 2 (BMS Management / Scheels)
- Conestoga - 1 (BMS Management)
More locations are planned for this fall.
For information on how you can sponsor fishing line recycling bins in your area or serve as a line collection volunteer, please PM, Catfishsteve, through the forum or email him at Steve.Wagle@nefga.org.
Photo Galleries
Bins being built
Omaha Area
Crete Area
Willard Meyer
Cottonmill & Ft. Kearney
Around Nebraska
Bins around Lincoln
Bins around Lincoln 2
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