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Cleaning Up
Uploaded on March 23, 2013I was at a WMA this past week with my grandson, exploring and fishing a little. I was impressed with how litter free the area was. I got to wondering, after the grandson found some old monofiliment line that some one had cut a tangle out of and just threw on the ground, what our duty to nature is. As a hunter and fisherman I have always tried to leave the area I am in free of anything that I have carried in. I am trying to impress on the grandson the same respect of nature. Does it bother any one else that other 'sportsmen' don't clean up after themselves; policing up brass, picking up litter, minimizing impact, etc.
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I live within 2 miles of a WMA but never hunt on it. I hunt private land.
Clean up is of the utmost importance.
If the people who hunt that WMA are such slobs they can't walk to a trash barrel to dump their trash, I really don't want to hunt with them.
When I bank fish at the local lake, I normally leave with a butt load of others garbage. I refuse to police the entire lake, but I can leave the spot I fished as clean as I can.
I think about this (www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM) every time I go to certain fishing and hunting spots around here. Crying shame..............
My Dad and grandfather always taught me to leave it better than I found it. I always pick up some trash when I go to places like that but to get it all would be a full time job. I can't see how people can act like that.
Chuckles, there's a beautiful little wildlife management area not too far from home with an equally beautiful stocked trout stream running thru it. Last time I was there I waded empty bait containers, broken beer bottles, fish carcasses, etc, to get to the water. That's the day that I decided littering should be a shooting offense. Such a beautiful place and so mistreated, just a shame.
007,
The local people used to get mad at me, because they would blame the tourist for leaving trash around different areas. I would point out to them in a very convincing way that it was the "LOCAL" people trashing the areas and not the tourists that came to enjoy the area. They didn't like to hear this but it's the truth. I know what I am talking about because I have written enough of them citations.
Sarge, I'm talking about Waite's Run, I know you know what I'm talking about. Crying shame how that place is abused. I once told our mutual pal Jerry (local, not Charleston) that litter should be a shooting offense. He said "you think everything is a shooting offense".
Camped for three nights last fall in a little patch of state land not far from town, with a nice crappie pond and a fair amount of grouse cover. There's a decent trail leading in from a main road, so it's a popular spot for high-school kids to party, and there was a bunch of a dozen or so out there around a bonfire the first night. They were out there until maybe one or two in the morning. I strolled over to that spot while I was fishing the next day, and found that they'd carried out every single can, bottle, food wrapper, everything. Same afternoon, three guys showed up to fish and left behind their empty soda bottles, empty Skoal can, empty cigarette box.
matt thats because the highschool kids have common sense and understand if they dont take care of the place people will complain about their partying and they wont have anywhere to hang out. The three guys that were there and left trash are obviously to stupid to understand if they dont take care of the land we will loose it.
On our Hunting Lease 900+ acres, We have a Clay Shooting area and a 50 & 100 Yd rifle range.The Boy Scouts come up to shoot on the first weekend of every month,our local Dog Patch Troop will Compete with other Troops. and camp out over night, the Clean-up is the best I have ever seen,They even go down the dirt road 1 mile and clean up all the trash on both sides of the road and we hall it off to the Dump.The bad part is next month the road to our camp will look the same TRASH,TRASH all over the both sides of the road.
tyd and treestand, do you think that this younger generation is more ecologically aware than our generation? It is good to know that Boy Scouts are still taught to leave nature areas better than they found it. I am trying to pass that on to my grandsons. The oldest one gets a little upset when I have him help pick up other's trash.
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Camped for three nights last fall in a little patch of state land not far from town, with a nice crappie pond and a fair amount of grouse cover. There's a decent trail leading in from a main road, so it's a popular spot for high-school kids to party, and there was a bunch of a dozen or so out there around a bonfire the first night. They were out there until maybe one or two in the morning. I strolled over to that spot while I was fishing the next day, and found that they'd carried out every single can, bottle, food wrapper, everything. Same afternoon, three guys showed up to fish and left behind their empty soda bottles, empty Skoal can, empty cigarette box.
I live within 2 miles of a WMA but never hunt on it. I hunt private land.
Clean up is of the utmost importance.
If the people who hunt that WMA are such slobs they can't walk to a trash barrel to dump their trash, I really don't want to hunt with them.
When I bank fish at the local lake, I normally leave with a butt load of others garbage. I refuse to police the entire lake, but I can leave the spot I fished as clean as I can.
I think about this (www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM) every time I go to certain fishing and hunting spots around here. Crying shame..............
My Dad and grandfather always taught me to leave it better than I found it. I always pick up some trash when I go to places like that but to get it all would be a full time job. I can't see how people can act like that.
Chuckles, there's a beautiful little wildlife management area not too far from home with an equally beautiful stocked trout stream running thru it. Last time I was there I waded empty bait containers, broken beer bottles, fish carcasses, etc, to get to the water. That's the day that I decided littering should be a shooting offense. Such a beautiful place and so mistreated, just a shame.
007,
The local people used to get mad at me, because they would blame the tourist for leaving trash around different areas. I would point out to them in a very convincing way that it was the "LOCAL" people trashing the areas and not the tourists that came to enjoy the area. They didn't like to hear this but it's the truth. I know what I am talking about because I have written enough of them citations.
Sarge, I'm talking about Waite's Run, I know you know what I'm talking about. Crying shame how that place is abused. I once told our mutual pal Jerry (local, not Charleston) that litter should be a shooting offense. He said "you think everything is a shooting offense".
matt thats because the highschool kids have common sense and understand if they dont take care of the place people will complain about their partying and they wont have anywhere to hang out. The three guys that were there and left trash are obviously to stupid to understand if they dont take care of the land we will loose it.
On our Hunting Lease 900+ acres, We have a Clay Shooting area and a 50 & 100 Yd rifle range.The Boy Scouts come up to shoot on the first weekend of every month,our local Dog Patch Troop will Compete with other Troops. and camp out over night, the Clean-up is the best I have ever seen,They even go down the dirt road 1 mile and clean up all the trash on both sides of the road and we hall it off to the Dump.The bad part is next month the road to our camp will look the same TRASH,TRASH all over the both sides of the road.
tyd and treestand, do you think that this younger generation is more ecologically aware than our generation? It is good to know that Boy Scouts are still taught to leave nature areas better than they found it. I am trying to pass that on to my grandsons. The oldest one gets a little upset when I have him help pick up other's trash.
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