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Collected Item: “Flag Area Mask Trash”

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Flag Area Mask Trash

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

photograph, text story

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This is a littered mask I found just several dozen feet east of the flag area and the program office at Camp Wolfeboro. I had just finished my Forestry merit badge session on the Tuolumne County side of camp, when I crossed the river to head to my Shotgun Shooting merit badge session at 10:00 AM. On the way to the range, I found a mask laying on the ground. I was a bit baffled as to how this mask was still here, because dozens of people had to have walked by it that morning already, whether going to or from a merit badge class or heading back to their campsite. The mask is extremely obvious, so anyone who walked here would have seen it.

The photo was taken at 9:50 AM on Thursday, July 22, 2021.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Camp Wolfeboro, Calaveras County, North Fork Stanislaus River, Stanislaus River, California, Scout, Scouting, mask trash, mask, trash, litter, garbage, obvious, disappointment

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Nicholas Harvey

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2021-07-22T09:50
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