Trashy People

Good job Eric!

It still blows my mind at the number of "dumps" we have seen on state land in upper Michigan.

Cars, washing machines...just plain crap that people feel they can dump 1/2 mile down a two-track in an otherwise pristine woodland.

In some cases, these spots have become the unofficial dumps for the local communities...amazing.


BTW, I haven't posted been in a while so Happy New Year to all!
 
I have caught 2 people dumping trash at my deer club in South Ala using my time lapse deer plot camera. The camera is great - comes on at daylight and takes pics every 5 seconds all day long. Just make sure its out of sight or up in a tree.
 
8x10 glossy photos with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back............


dc
 
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The public use areas where we duck hunt up here are well known for being trashed by the spoilers. For 15 to 20 years there has been a spring cleanup of burnt cars/trucks and load after load of rebagged trash bags. The "Meth-Su" Hillbillies in Palmer and Wasilla, AK cant afford to take their crap to the dump so they toss it in the woods.

The burnt cars typically originate in Anchorage and are burnt within days of being stolen, so I can't blame the Meth-Su Hillbillies for all of that.

A few years ago the State created a public use area for most of the area which allowed them to set special rules and finance law enforcment patrols. It helped slow down the issues. However, each spring cleanup we still find a few dumptrucks of trash out there and a few cars.

There was a small road side dump starting in a subdivision access road in Sutton, AK. The borough decided to perform a cleanup. Between the time they surveyed the site and started the cleanup (1 month), at least two families had dumped their pickup loads of trash at the site. Complete with lots of mail. They were visited by the Troopers and were given the option of paying for the entire cleanup cost, or cleaning it up and only paying a fine. They took the fine and a weekend of shoveling and hauling.
 
Ray, have a buddy in Eagle River. I know what you mean, we have driven the back roads and found dump sites. Go to Grouse Ridge to shoot when I'm there.
 
This summer some of the guys were working at the club and notice several black garbage bags floating down the creek. They were filled with adult diapers , feminine products, medical waste and other putrid stuff. After calling the sheriff and going full CSI on the crap, the last bag contained a empty pill bottle with a name and address . Sheriiff went to the guys house and made him get all the stuff . Only gave a warning, but said he would be the first guy he would contact if this happened again. Dirtbag.
 
Typical governemnt. I read all these stories about enforcement and wonder if it wouldn't be a whole lot cheaper to just run a county dump? Make it a very small fee to dump stuff and make the mandatory fine huge if caught dumping somewhere illegally. Also giev them roadway or park clean up community service.

If people know all they have to do if caught is pick it up and get a warning - why stop the behavior?

Mark W
 
Ray, Funny you should say that cars get stolen in Anchorage and dumped up by you. Just last week i was eyeing up a standing-dead spruce and today i got time to cut her and haul it out, well over the weekend someone must have stole a car and drove it through some thin cover and got it stuck up behind some alders near said spruce tree and lit it on fire. Called the cops and they ID'ed the car over the phone. Only 23 miles of road on Baranof Island, where are you gonna go with a stolen car????? IDIOTS.
 
that is one of the best stories I've heard in a while. I hunt public land here in Iowa most of the time and we always see other people's Garbage everywhere. a couple of years ago, I was scouting a place where you have to walk an access road and cross a creek to get to the man made lake that I wanted to hunt only to find that someone dumped four water heaters into the creek. Then after the Floods of 2008 when the water went back down, we found someones ski boat sticking half out of the mud in the river channel. The water heaters are gone but I'd really like to see the local DNR take car of that boat. Usually, if we find garbage that we can carry out for other people, we do but it gets worse every year. Some people really make me sick.
 
I once watched a guy pitch some bags of garbage off a bridge in Georgia. He saw me and hauled ass before I could get his tag. The bags were floating in the creek so I called the game warden who didn't like litterers at all. He dug through one of the bags and found some mail, went to the guy's house and ticketed him. The court fined him and made him clean it up. Unfortunately, pitching garbage bags off bridges is a common way to dispose of trash down south.
 
I inherited garbage when I bought the land we live on now. Old springs, car parts, appliances that were rusting away. Now that we live on the land they can't get back here to dump anymore. You would not believe how low the low lifes really are. What happened to the greatest country that ever was?

Ed.
 
We have that problem about once a month on our place..found everything..Literally everything.
biggest and most bizzare...an 18 wheeler truck attached to a 16x80 mobile home...it was stolen
 
Update: Went by the property over the weekend and the mess has been cleaned up. Every last bit of it. It sure is nice when the power of the law helps you right a wrong.
 
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