Friends of the Kaw’s trained volunteers pull tires out of the Kansas River between Eudora and De Soto in October. A Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks game warden helps ferry the tires away by boat.[Dawn Buehler/Friends of the Kaw]
By Celia Llopis-Jepsen Friends of the Kaw volunteers dig 2 to 6 tons of battery cases out of sandbars each year. They tackle items as…