A day in the woods....ruined...

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This is why farmers and ranchers are closing up their land to hunters. I have caught people shooting up windmills and solar panels on submersible wells. I even caught USAF personnel throwing trash out of vehicles on the way to missile bases on our ranch. I picked it up, went to the Launch control center, got on the phone at the gate and told them I was returning their stuff, and threw it over the fence. The Lt. Colonel ,Flight Commander, came out to the ranch and paid me a visit 2 hours later. He was quite adamant that it wouldn't happen again.
 
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One of my favorite whitetail spots on USNF land was a dead end road. Went out to check it and some dipstick dumped their moving trash there. I reported it to the area FS HQ. They went ut the next day and cleaned it up. I had left my name and number with them. The FS leo called me and said thank you. There were receipts and "other" identifying things in the pile of trash and it lead to them being caught, fined and covering the cost of the clean up. Glad I was on my ATV and not in my p/u because I was used to packing out garbage. Especially around campsites. They probably would have never been caught.
 
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This is why farmers and ranchers are closing up their land to hunters.
I always take a couple blaze orange, plastic leaf bags with me when scouting or hunting. I probably could do with kitchen sized bags, but..., those are white, and walking out with a large, white object in my hand bobbing along as I hike is just asking to take-fire. :confused: The orange trash bags I get at a local orchard/pumpkin patch and they sell the orange bags to put your lawn leaves in, and when fully filled one portion has some black triangles and a black "smile", so it looks like a giant jack-o-lantern sitting on the edge of your property, awaiting pick-up. Anyway, I fill them with any trash that I find, and it doesn't hurt when scouting the area before hunting season to let the land owner see me carting out a bag of trash or two. ;) Also, I let the land owner know if I see an opening in a fence or a break in the cattle fence, that sorta stuff. IF you become the farmer's extra eyes, you may find he complains if you don't go out there often enough. :D

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Sorry to hear about the trash; good job cleaning it up. I detest inconsiderate slobs who dump trash. My wife and I walk the neighborhood every morning. It is generally a pretty tidy place, but we still find and pick up occasional cans and bottles or fast food bags someone dumped from their car window rather than disposing of properly. Hate that attitude.
 
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I have a good friend I went to high school with that is in charge of our city dump. He’s also an avid hunter. About 3-4 times a year I call him and tell him I’ve got a load of trash from public land. He doesn’t charge me to bring it out. So all I’m out is time. It still sucks. But I know it’s just a matter of time before I catch someone in the act. That’s going to be a good day.
 
OPG sux! (Other People's Garbage) Hired in 1984, our crew built the Taconite & Arrowhead Snowmobile trails, along with many Public Water Accesses. Well, the areas need maintenance, including picking up garbage. Granted, I was paid for it back in the day to pick up OPG,(literally tons over the decades) but even on my days off, wandering around, I would still leave areas, trails or campsights cleaned of human debris. I am not a tree hugger but darn it, I HATE PIGS! I have been retired now for about a year and half and still pick up stuff left by other idiots. KUDOS to Bones and your brother!:)
 
I frequent a local illegal trash dumping site. I almost always leave with something good. It’s an erodible spot that’s probably done good by folks dumping limbs and large trash. But someone’s always dumping trash that could have easily gone in a dumpster and it blows everywhere and makes a big mess.

We usually return deer and pig remains to where they were shot so they can cycle back through, or somewhere we want to shoot coyotes. I believe Texas law says to put them somewhere they won’t be a bother to anyone.
 
This crap is dumb and far too common. I had a neighbor (edge of town, outside limits though) rip up his shrubs and carry them across the road to my woods and give them a sling down the hill. I didn’t raise too much cane since it’s degradable but I was beyond angry. I also didn’t demand he go get the stuff because the last few rains have opened up a cave that I don’t want people to know about. I only have an acre, but I have woods full of squirrels, chipmunks, and the neighbors shrubs.
 
I was not surprised when I found a huge new berm at "The Shooting Spot", right in the trail as I pulled up.

I usually pick up brass and tvs and couches. I pile the beer cases and targets and pallets together and burn them, if the weather is right. I bring a bucket for broken glass bottle bottoms.

But when I went out a week before I was unable to load the three seat Sea-doo jet ski up in the truck...

Mostly from being so bullet riddled, there was no place that I could put my hands and not catch fiberglass. Evidently, someone extraordinarily hated this particular personal water craft.

When I called in I was not the only one to report it. I hope they got the blighter, as now I have to trek up and down said berm to use that spot.

On the lighter side, I did find, then blow up, a relatively nice drum set once. The cymbal stand survived to become a sprinkler tri-pod.:thumbup:

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I would like to add, I did clean up the drum set as well. It was slightly more effort, but completely worth it.
 
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Just a little update. Went up to the property on Sunday to do a little stand maintenence. No trashed dumped his time. However we did setup a trailcam on the roadway coming in as a percaution.

Was nice to get out in the woods and have things go smoothly. 70 degrees with a slight breeze, couldn't ask for better weather. Only crappy thing to happen was getting nailed in my earhole by a ground bee. Big nest on the root ball of a blown down hemlock in the pine swamp. Was dragging brush and planned to stack it behind the root ball and didnt see the nest. My brother was laughing at me running away from them. He was standing on an old log to reach a high branch with the polesaw and the bark gave out and he fell straight on his butt. Now he's got a stiff neck . We got a good laugh out of the situation at least.:)
 
Glad to hear that the scoundrels weren't back since your last visit. I have the same problem on BLM land out here in the desert. Everything from old tires to TV's to mirrors and glass; even had an old abandoned camper shell out here, that was all shot up. I tried placing a game camera up, and even got some activity on it as far as litters go, but we couldn't make out a license plate, or a good description of the thugs. The only place you can place a game camera out here is way off the road and trail, otherwise someone would steel it. BTW my game camera is quite old and not of the best quality.
 
Yeah i second that- we have lost some good shooting areas here in the Las Vegas area to losers who can't seem to pick up their trash and seem to just love hauling an unbelievable amount of junk out to the desert to shoot. Very sad as i love the freedom of being able to move around while we shoot, or even just enjoy the solitude of our desert but getting broken beer bottles through my boot sole gets old...

We need far more people in this hobby like the OP.
 
somebody dumped a load of used shingles and the wrappers from the new ones in our woods a couple years ago.

my brother called the law,they came out. he showed them a house about a mile away that had been reroofed. showed him the remainder of the same used shingles and the wrappers from the same new shingles found in our woods that were still in a pile in the house backyard.

officer just shrugged and said there was nothing he could do unless we caught them in the act. nice.
 
somebody dumped a load of used shingles and the wrappers from the new ones in our woods a couple years ago.

my brother called the law,they came out. he showed them a house about a mile away that had been reroofed. showed him the remainder of the same used shingles and the wrappers from the same new shingles found in our woods that were still in a pile in the house backyard.

officer just shrugged and said there was nothing he could do unless we caught them in the act. nice.
That’s when you load them up and dump them in the yard at night.
 
A subdivision was developed next to my old family ranch. I worked it out with the kids as an early warning system for me in return for their use of pasture and woods.

They reported a pile of paper at a boundary fence. I checked it out and found envelopes with the trash-thrower's name and address in the subdivision. I loaded, hauled and dumped and made sure the kids told their parents about the preacher's behavior. :)

Thereafter he apparently followed the advice of, "Go thou, and sin no more."
 
My Dad used to investigate this stuff years ago & he was relentless with it.
Most of the time they are stupid enough to do it as well as leave something to track them with.
Some of the people had to come from another state to clean it up. Isn't that crazy?
Makes me mad just seeing the photos, Go get em!
 
When I am grouse hunting out in the Woods of Northern MN, I am always picking up beer cans and wrappers. I just do not understand the piggish mentality. I am 52 years old. My dad would have rung my neck if he caught me dumping trash and litter in the woods.

I do not understand some people.

Good job cleaning up the slobs mess OP. You and your brother did a good deed. Now that I have read this thread, I pity the slob who leaves a mess with mail or shipping addresses...


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I'm convinced that the costs associated with using a dump/landfill contribute to this sort of thing. No one wants to pay $144 to get rid of trash. I'm not saying I have solution, but if it weren't so pricey, I think there would be less trash where it doesn't belong.

Yeah I'd say so. Not sure if we're an oddball situation, but here we pay the local municipality for residential curbside pickup (works out to about $13 per month), but if you drive the trash to one of the disposal centers yourself you can throw it away for free.

Granted, nothing's really "free" and it's obviously tax payer supported, but still I think it's to everyone's benefit to make it as painless and easy as possible to dispose of trash.
 
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