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The Frontier 4X4 Club removed more than 3,000 pounds of trash from the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest over the weekend.

The Forest Service recruited the club to assist in the removal of a camper and pickup bed trailer that was abandoned on Priest Pass. The trailers were left in a swampy area off a closed road and getting tow trucks to the site was not feasible.

“We do work like this with social benefits, do things for the Forest Service and pick up trash along the trail, and it was brought up to us that they couldn’t get tow trucks into where the camp trailer was,” said Richard Hiltz with the club.

The club arrived with their specialty four-wheel drives and made it to the site at about 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Along with moving the camper to where the Forest Service can get it, members loaded about 3,000 pounds of debris and hauled it to the landfill. Hiltz believes it is likely the most trash the club has ever hauled from the forest during one of its cleanup projects.

“Before we voted on it and make the agreement I went up and checked on the situation, so we knew it’d be ugly,” he said. “But it was actually easier than we thought.”