Littering???

[ashersdad]

I just don't understand littering in the outdoors. I went fishing yesterday for a couple hours first thing in the morning. Fish weren't biting so I decided to leave. I always carry a garbage bag in my tackle box and cleaned up all the beer cans and trash in the area before I left. Well this morning I got up at 5:30 and decided to bail on church and go fishing again. As I'm getting ready my 7 and 5 year old come in and want to go too. I tell them they need to stay and go to church with Mom but that wasn't going to work so I told them to get dressed.

Well we get to our spot and my hell, there is trash everywhere!! In 24 hours the place looks like a frickin dump! There were beer cans and trash everywhere!

So me and the boys clean it up again. I even told them if they waded into the water I would give them $1 for every can they brought in. They couldn't get into that freezing water fast enough. Little buggers will do anything for a buck.

Why is it so damn hard to pack out your garbage? I don't get it.

 

[jore07]

I hear you for sure. It seems like I'll be in a place that people just don't visit much and there is trash (usually beer cans) everywhere. It is completely annoying. I do my part in picking up what I can but I am with you I don't get it all. It’s sad thought that people have that much disrespect for outdoors.

 

[BuzzH]

Know exactly what you mean...I used to clean up some fishing areas when I fished steelhead in Idaho. I packed a plastic grocery sack full of garbage out every time I fished there. I also made sure that I picked up the litter while the people fishing around me would notice. Pretty quick, most everyone was picking up their own litter and quite a few others started packing out plastic grocery sacks of garbage out.

In short order that place was much, much better...lead by example.

 

[fishing4sanity]

It's a shame anyone litters, but especially other outdoorsmen. Buzz, you're right about leading by example, many years ago I was fishing with one of my dad's friends and before we left the river he pulled out two garbage bags, handed me one and just started picking up garbage. I was only 13 at the time but Cal's example stuck, I always carry a bag with me to bring out garbage - sadly I don't think I've ever gone out without finding trash to bring back.

 

[1_pointer]

I hear you! Took my son squirrel hunting on 8/15, but with him being 4yo it was more of a walk in the woods. We packed out as much trash as we could carry (no bags). Between myself and the "liberal brainwashing" he's getting at daycare/preschool I think he hates litter more than I do. It is funny to have your 4yo point out to you that you put the empty milk carton in the wrong trash can in the garage...

 

[Whiskers]

I never fail to come home without a boat full of other peoples trash!!
I used to fish with a guy that threw everything overboard. After a couple of DISCUSSIONS about it I quit fishing with him. He is a good guy in everyway other than that. He would fill beer cans with water so they would sink..wtf.

 

[elk_hunter]

It's damn frustrating. Slobs for sure that just flat out have zero respect for the outdoors. Sad and frustrating...but true about leading by example and picking up while they watch.

 

[idnative1948]

Glad you all echo my frustration with some of the frigging slobs we have on our planet. Same thing for me when we went fishing a couple of weeks ago. I filled up three shopping bags with trash in the space of an hour. I would even walk up behind people that were fishing and pick up trash right around them and some of them looked at me like I was a nut case. Wasn't about to go into a rant because you never know what kind of nuts you are dealing with. Seemed like most was styro bait containers stuck in the bushes and grass along shoreline along with 44oz drink containers. Morning we left I went after cast off fishing line stuck all over the place. That crap is another story in itself. Thanks for letting me rant.

 

[mdunc8]

And that's only what you can see above the water. Try dragging a trawl down the river and see what you come up with.

 

[Sytes]

I never fail to come home without a boat full of other peoples trash!!
I used to fish with a guy that threw everything overboard. After a couple of DISCUSSIONS about it I quit fishing with him. He is a good guy in everyway other than that. He would fill beer cans with water so they would sink..wtf.

Think I would have thrown him overboard...

A buddy last year, while in a convenience store parking lot saw some guy toss out his fast food cup out the truck window... He went over, picked it up and dropped it on the guys lap... I thought for sure they were going to get into it... and was advising him to just toss it in the trash... he would have nothing to do with it... The guy actually looked ashamed of himself and didn't say a word...

Meh - can't fix stupid.

 

[Dinkshooter]

In short order that place was much, much better...lead by example.

I tried to help others.

 

[npaden]

And that's only what you can see above the water. Try dragging a trawl down the river and see what you come up with.

Last summer I spent part of my vacation cleaning up trash off the bottom of a lake in Kentucky. My brother has a subsurface air delivery setup where the air compressor floats on a inner tube and you are hooked up with a 100' long air hose. We dove along the bottom of the cove we were in and it was pretty neat. Visibility was only about 4 or 5 feet so it took some work to find stuff. Between the 2 of us we recovered 2 boat anchors, 5 swim masks, a snorkel, 6 golf balls, and ended up picking up a 32 gallon trash can full of beer cans and bottles from off the bottom. He's found all kinds of crazy stuff, but the the most common items by far are beer cans, beer bottles and plastic cups.

Here's a picture of me after unloading my catch. My brother is diving at the end of the other air line and my nieces are snorkeling above where he is diving.

 

[THWAK1]

I can't stand slobs either! Ever since my kids were little, which they aren't anymore, I always taught them to leave where ever it is we are at, better than we found it. Whether it's while we are out fishing, camping, hiking, hunting or even if we are walking through a parking lot where we live. Thanks to you and yours for making the outdoors a better place for everyone to enjoy!

 

[mtlion]

In MT you can loose your license and be banned from camping if you are caught littering while hunting or fishing.

Lately I've been taking the dog swimming on the Bitterroot near Hamilton. It blows me away how much litter you'll see on that beautiful river, 99% I'm sure from non-hunters/anglers. Too bad we can't ban them from using the resource for littering.

 

[Phantom]

Sure is sad that people feel like they have to trash up everything. I've found lots of litter on the public ground here in Iowa. I haven't found as many "lost" arrows though since Dinkshooter left the state. it was almost not safe to walk around the woods anymore.

Another huge pet peeve are those drivers who flick out their cigarette butts while driving. i probably see that 3-4 times per day while stuck at traffic lights.

 

[Goldtip]

I hate finding trash in the woods. I agree, lead by example and hopefully others will follow suit. I regularly return to camp with trash in my pack that I pick up along main trails or even in the middle of the woods. Always surprises me the crap I find in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Dinkshooter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz1TyAjOX4g

Maybe they should meet Woodsy.

 

[emrah1028]

I always hunt with a backpack, so I always (unfortunately) come out with other people's trash almost every single time. Pisses me off.

Emrah

 

[CJ...$]

You guys ain't seen Nothing:

New Website to Draw Attention to Trash at Arizona-Mexico Border - FoxNews.com



Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/ille...wildlife-enviroment-2011-a.html#ixzz1YkUZ7jc5


Click on this .. below "once on the site"

[Arizona Border Trash]

Just search Border trash.. its unbelievable... seeing it in person is just sickening:W:

 

[Dinkshooter]

We may need that sad crying indian commercial from the 70's again.