I bring a trash bag duck hunting. I often find floating shells in the marsh, and try to pay it forward. I'm sure I've lost track of some of mine, but it's good hunting form to bring a trash bag with you to grab what you can -- even if it's not yours.

there is a public hunting spot not ver far from where i live like this. ive always been taught to leave the woods like you found them. so i try to pick up everything i drop on the ground while im hunting. i especiall hate it to find a bunch of trash on private land i hunt that is not mine nor the landowners.

Hi...

You forgot to tell those slobs that they were also caught on a trail cam...!!

They should be ID'd shortly.

Years ago my dad and I had built a large, comfortable blind on a gravel bar on a river in MT. Had a great opener shoot out of it.
A couple of weeks later we went to hunt it and found it FULL of garbage, including torn down wood duck nesting boxes that they used for seats. Mad doesn't describe my dad at that point.
A week later we saw a boat go up river, and we ran up to see what was up. Dad pulled right in the hole they had conviently set in the deke spread, and they stayed in the blind, pretending they didn't notice us. Dad finally yelled at them to come out, having written down their boat number, telling them he was going to turn them in for littering.
Long story longer, they claimed up and down it wasn't them, what a bunch of rat bastards would do that, blah blah blah.
We were just getting ready to leave, and the little kid with them piped up and said, "And when we were here last week, we left lots of shotgun shells!!!!" Out of the mouths of babes....
Dad was so mad, we went back that afternoon with a can of kerosene and burned that blind to the ground.

It's REALLY bad around here opening week of big game season. I won't even go out in the bush at that time. I get so mad I'm afraid I'll have a stroke. Just stick to the fields hunting geese then (which I conveniently have all to myself because everyone else is gone after moose). The only thing that should be left in a campsite after packing up is the wood pile and maybe the fire ring.

To all you"commenters"who don't understand,a lot of people who live in America,do so to"trash"as much/often as they can..America"birth"place of the litter-bug!!!Congratulations to all who take the time to"clean-up"after them!!!!

I would like to add "Boaters who throw their trash over board" to the list. Having been a diver for decades the under water landscape is appalling. Just because it's out of sight relives the conscience of a lot of people. Brings to mind the adage "would you wipe your @ss if sh!t was invisible.

I see it all the time at the public shotgun range and on the WMAs. What a disgace. Clean up after yourselves!

this article can also be applied to when hunters trash private land. i don't know how many times i heard hunters say "i tried to obtain permission to hunt a particular piece of property and were told NO because other hunters left the place a mess." either way private or public anyone who feels "entitled" to do whatever they want should be physically beaten...SEVERELY.

The crappers the moose hunter crews leave around here are the most annoying litter. No one expects these clowns to scoop their poop but they can at least dismantle their visquene poopers and burn the toilet seats. Within weeks porcupines start chewing and no one can sit on them again anyway. Not an issue at my camp. I lay my logs on Chinette paper plates and they get burned with the TP in the stove. Talk about Leave No Trace! Word of warning! Don't try this with cheap paper plates or you'll be chasing turds across the floor. I speak from experience. Also, proper placement of the target requires some practice in the off season. Best not to tell your spouse why you're taking picnic plates and garbage bags into the john. Hmmmm. Perhaps too much information?

big problem with ice fishing around here. people drive out on the lakes and leave trash all over.

at the end of the day trout fishing my creel is usually completely filled up with beer cans that were in the stream or shorelines

the littering problems seem to be getting worse and worse every year. almost every boat landing i got to these days has some sort of garbage laying around

Thanks for that bit of advice yanzi. That really makes sense.

Instead of having to 'pick up' trash... it seems like it'd be easier to just put it in a bag in the first place... didn't we learn these things in elementary school, or before? Unacceptable behavior from "sportsmen."