slobs in the woods

[FREELANDFLYFISHER]

Why do people, I'll use that losely, have to go out in the woods build blinds in beautiful areas and then go out, sit in their blinds and throw their trash all over their blinds and leave it there. I went to my bow hunting spot last week and while tracking my fathers spike came across a blind that had two pails that weren't even in the blind anymore, candy wrappers, beer cans, water bottles, one of those heater packets to warm up food, etc. Its just disgusting that people can't pick that %#@ up when they leave. I don't hunt that spot during gun season mostly for the fact of the type of hunters that are in that area, I don't trust them. Two weekends ago I was in my blind rate at dark and I heard a small caliber rilfe go off, probably a 22, which made me wonder if thats one less buck before gun season. This is in Roscommon county by the way. I also hunt a 40 of private land in Midland county of which when I returned this week I found tracks, human all over, a coffee cup where someone was parked on my property. I just don't get it how people can be so absent minded and whatever you want to call it. I have told probably 4 people this year to stay off the land and they just don't care. I hunt alone alot and don't want to make to many waves but damm. :rant: :rant: :rant:

[wally-eye]

Gets worse every year doesn't it...............

I know someone that owns a ton of land in the upper and they literally hire an off duty cop on the 15th to patrol the outskirts of their 600 acres just to keep tresspassers off. Busts people every year for tresspassing.

Sad state of affairs.

[kdogger]

Two weekends ago I was in my blind rate at dark and I heard a small caliber rilfe go off, probably a 22, which made me wonder if thats one less buck before gun season.

Nope, that was me popping a Coyote!

Don't be so hasty to jump to a conclusion...you need to use a 22 after daylight to hunt coyotes.

[Bunny]

So... did you pick up the garbage or did you leave it? That really erks my buttons when I see a pile of junk in the woods.

[glockman55]

And what about these slobs that trespass on your land sit in your blind and leave their trash for you to find? Their just asking for an A$# Kicking!
Ignorant people shouldn't breed!!:evil:

[justonedeer]

I pick up trash in the woods when ever I can.:help:

[Briar Field]

With people like this in the woods, it is very clear to me why prop 3 failed. If people don't start treating the areas with respect we will no longer have hunting around here. How many of those tresspassers and litting idiots have ticked off non-hunters enough times for them to switch from being indifferent to becomeing anti-hunters????

I love hunting and want to see it continue but with so many unethical disrespectfull people we need to over haul the hunters image and I hate to say it, redo our hunting laws (include anger managment:rant: and law class :confused: with our hunters safety.)

[Gunslingergirl]

I hate the trash. My dad has 5 acres that butt up against State land. He picks up trash and junk off his land all the time.

It's so annoying that people don't police the areas in which they walk and hunt and fish better. When did it become acceptable to just leave your trash where it falls?

GSG

[john warren]

when i started hunting.... i'll just say several years ago, we didn't tolerate this sort of thing. we would really get on people for that. then it started getting really bad. every where you went , beer bottles and cans. trash all over. i can't explain the difference to you younger fellows that the bottle return bill made in the woods. you never saw what it was like. i think its time we as sportsman took the gentlemanly approach and stop tolerating others messing up our land. speak up when you see it. pick up when you don't!Why do people, I'll use that losely, have to go out in the woods build blinds in beautiful areas and then go out, sit in their blinds and throw their trash all over their blinds and leave it there. I went to my bow hunting spot last week and while tracking my fathers spike came across a blind that had two pails that weren't even in the blind anymore, candy wrappers, beer cans, water bottles, one of those heater packets to warm up food, etc. Its just disgusting that people can't pick that %#@ up when they leave. I don't hunt that spot during gun season mostly for the fact of the type of hunters that are in that area, I don't trust them. Two weekends ago I was in my blind rate at dark and I heard a small caliber rilfe go off, probably a 22, which made me wonder if thats one less buck before gun season. This is in Roscommon county by the way. I also hunt a 40 of private land in Midland county of which when I returned this week I found tracks, human all over, a coffee cup where someone was parked on my property. I just don't get it how people can be so absent minded and whatever you want to call it. I have told probably 4 people this year to stay off the land and they just don't care. I hunt alone alot and don't want to make to many waves but damm. :rant: :rant: :rant:

[tmanmi]

I let a former co-worker and a couple of his buddies hunt on my property about 4 years ago and I am still finding and picking up beer cans.

[U.P. Whackmaster]

This really burns my buns as well! I was always taught that you must leave the wood/ water the way you found it or cleaner (i.e. pick up other's garbage) There's nothing like finding that awesome area littered with deer sign miles from no where only to see cans, bottles and other garbage strewn around. I carry a plastic bag in my backpack to pick that kind of stuff up and put it where it belongs. Same with fishing, if I find line or other garbage stream or lake side, I ravel it up and take it out with me. It is a shame that there are SLOBS in our outdoors. I'm sure these individuals wouldn't like me to dump their garbage in their yard or house! Who knows maybe they would like it, LOL. We will leave our Earth to our children, let's keep it as clean as we can despite what others do to filth it up.Just my .02 cents!
Whack

[dtg]

when i started hunting.... i'll just say several years ago, we didn't tolerate this sort of thing. we would really get on people for that. then it started getting really bad. every where you went , beer bottles and cans. trash all over. i can't explain the difference to you younger fellows that the bottle return bill made in the woods. you never saw what it was like. i think its time we as sportsman took the gentlemanly approach and stop tolerating others messing up our land. speak up when you see it. pick up when you don't!
I believe you, I come across really old beer cans and bottles along with an empty liquor bottles all the time on State land. The worse is that this particualr piece has somehow become a shooting range. As you enter the trailhead, about 75 yrds in, the area is covered in casings and shells from every caliber known to man. One loan huge tree has has been shot so much that it is now halfway shot away. I don't know how it's survived this long.

[Backwoods-Savage]

Well, the old question is, "Why are there more orzesasses than there are orzes?"

[pescadero]

I hate the trash. My dad has 5 acres that butt up against State land. He picks up trash and junk off his land all the time.

It's so annoying that people don't police the areas in which they walk and hunt and fish better. When did it become acceptable to just leave your trash where it falls?

GSG

I hate, hate, hate trash... but people are just slobs. Every time I mow my lawn I have to collect a garbage bag full of trash from my ditch - and this is all stuff people threw out there car window while driving past. Public land areas are often even worse. I always carry a garbage bag and try to leave with it full.


...and don't even get me started on the idiots who throw their cigarett butts out the car window (usually lit)...

--
lp

[Gunslingergirl]

Oh, I hate that one too. I'm driving along and someone flings their lit cigarette out the window and it hits the pavement and sparks. I just want to go smack those people.

We get trash a lot around my house as well. I'm in a sort of rural area and people must just drive down the road and throw stuff out the window. It's maddening. I go on walks around the neighborhood and can fill up a trash bag quite easily without venturing far from the side of the road.

We need to teach people to take better care of the beauty of nature. Nothing is worse than beautiful scenery that is marred by a bunch of trash.

GSG

[safetreehunt]

My family has had some land for 28 years now and I'm still picking up garbage from the previous owners. Some of it is pretty interesting. Old cans and bottles and such, but it still is a bummer.

[EYESON]

Read the article in this months woods-n-watters. It will make you laugh because it is what I would love to do with tresspassers.

[pescadero]

Oh, I hate that one too. I'm driving along and someone flings their lit cigarette out the window and it hits the pavement and sparks. I just want to go smack those people.

Yep... You KNOW their car has an ashtray, so why do they think it is acceptable to use the world as their ashtray?


--
lp

[Gunslingergirl]

I especially hate seeing it in the summer when we're having high fire days up here. A lot of of the roads go through grassy country. All it takes is one cigarette that isn't extinguished landing on some grass and we've got a forest fire.

GSG

[pescadero]

I especially hate seeing it in the summer when we're having high fire days up here. A lot of of the roads go through grassy country. All it takes is one cigarette that isn't extinguished landing on some grass and we've got a forest fire.

GSG

I used to see it all the time when I lived in Oregon - which has huge summer forest fire issues. In fact tossing a lit cigarette in Oregon is a minimum $500 fine, of course I never saw anyone actually get pulled over for it.

--
lp

[deepwoods]

I very rarely ever go into the woods and not pick up some kind of trash. Beer cans, bottles, bags, etc........

I try to actually leave it better than I found it.

[tiller killer]

I believe you, I come across really old beer cans and bottles along with an empty liquor bottles all the time on State land. The worse is that this particualr piece has somehow become a shooting range. As you enter the trailhead, about 75 yrds in, the area is covered in casings and shells from every caliber known to man. One loan huge tree has has been shot so much that it is now halfway shot away. I don't know how it's survived this long.



There is a parking lot on state land near the st. charles area, its off of ithica rd.. i go there and use it as a range, however, i shoot from the back of my car with the trunk open so that 99% of my emptys land in the trunk... its fun to vacume them up at the car wash and listen to the vacume system clink like a mo-fo... about 2 weeks ago i went out with my gf, she loves to shoot and i love teaching her, when we got there we seen an old shyty ford in the lot, some guy and his son had a saw horse, the dad had a garbage bag full of glass MGD bottles. they would sit 5-6 bottles ontop of the sawhorse and shoot away.... i would have said somthing but the father was very well intoxicated and his 12 gauge was a bit intimidating (i have a mossberg .22lr and a ruger 22lr pistol)..

i have a 20ft section of roap with loops tied in it, i have hangars bent to hold 2 clay pigeons each, I destroy a case of 90 pigeons every practice peroid and it will take me all of 10 min to rake em up off of the gravel area i shoot over and dump them in a 5gal pale, just add them to the driveway when i get home....

is it really that difficult to be tidy, im an absolute slob (my car is the perfect example) and i still manage to keep the land clean...



btw, even the peaces of the clays i miss during cleanup will disolve within a few weeks.....



duke

[skulldugary]

Something that steams me is camp sites on state land,most never bother to get camp permits and it's hard to track these people down.These camp sites have a rock fire ring thats full of melted milk jugs,half burnt styrofoam egg cartons,beer caps laying allover,broken bottles and full bags of trash left behind and chit holes not covered up.

[eino]

Something that steams me is camp sites on state land,most never bother to get camp permits and it's hard to track these people down.These camp sites have a rock fire ring thats full of melted milk jugs,half burnt styrofoam egg cartons,beer caps laying allover,broken bottles and full bags of trash left behind and chit holes not covered up.


I hear ya. What's even worse though is when the garbage don't even make it to the fire pit. Some of it is just people dumping their trash, and alot of it actually comes from the people who camp there and don't mind how filty they leave the place for others to camp in. I've gone to my favorite camp site a few times and burned the trash left behind. It's hard to enjoy your couple days of camping when it looks like a city dump.

Ed