Sentence examples for shovel brigade from inspiring English sources
And in 2000, two years after the Forest Service declared the South Canyon Road outside of Elko, Nev., off limits, outraged off-roaders and other land-use activists nationwide descended on the town to participate in what they called a shovel brigade, chanting "freedom" as they removed a 10,000-pound boulder blocking the path's entrance.
Obama was "left to run a shovel brigade," Alter said, like the people who clean up after the elephants at a circus.
Rallying points include the Elko County Courthouse, where a 30-foot shovel paid for by the Shovel Brigade stands on the lawn like a monument.
As a result, the Shovel Brigade is growing with a fervor throughout the West and at least half a dozen states elsewhere.
"The listing of that bull trout is one of the phoniest things they came up with," said Assemblyman John C. Carpenter, who helped organize the Shovel Brigade.
More than a decade ago, a vigilante group called the "Jarbidge Shovel Brigade" was formed to seize the control of public lands in Elko County, Nevada.
Volunteer shovel brigades fanned out Monday across the center of town to assist property owners in getting vehicles out of knee-high muck, broken branches and boulders.
From 2009 until late 2011, the government slightly lowered the lake level by sending in pick-and-shovel brigades to open an outlet.
