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 MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) - The dragonflies skimming the tea-colored water and the blackbirds in the marsh grasses looked at home along Cane Bayou and the Lake Pontchartrain shore. But canoeing through the waterways Sunday, it was hard not to notice the truck tires, wine bottles and other urban debris left scattered in the shallow water and along the shoreline by Hurricane Katrina.
"There's so much stuff out there that if people like us don't come out and pick it out, it'll be here for a long, long time," said outfitter Byron Almquist.
Sunday morning, Almquist supplied eight canoes for a team of 16 people to participate in an environmental cleanup on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain.
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