Digging rotting tires out of the mud might sound like a strange idea of fun, but it’s one shared by the 20 some volunteers who helped clean up the Youghiogheny River on Saturday morning.
“You get a little exercise and you get to do something cool,” said Lindsay Forney, 39, of Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood before launching her canoe from Cedar Creek Park in Rostraver.
The group pulled into a West Newton boat launch a few hours later with around 200 tires — all from just a four-mile stretch…