A non-profit conservation group says crews from local and regional organizations have managed to remove 11 giant industrial tires that had recently washed up on a beach near Campbell River, B.C.

Camille Andrews, habitat management co-ordinator for Greenways Land Trust, says a tugboat operated by Coast Island Marine hauled the tires off the beach on Monday to a nearby marine terminal.

"I t really felt like such a special thing to be a part of having the whole community come together like that ," Andrews said, adding that nearly 30 volunteers had already come out the week before to pick up bits of Styrofoam from the beach.

The land trust says the tires will be craned out of the water and loaded onto trucks for disposal at a landfill.

Andrews says the land trust is working with the Cit

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