SAD

[Jamesdean]

As a resource manager (fishery biologist) who picks up so many trash bags of trash every year at access areas (not my job but I do it anyway), I get as mad as anyone else. I don’t understand it either. We have tried leaving trash cans but this doesn’t work because some don’t throw their trash it it anyway and others fill the cans full with their house hold trash. Once the cans are full, it become how high can we pile the trash. The. Critters get into it and it is a bigger mess. We decided years ago that we have to deal with less trash with no trash cans. Unfortunately you can’t fix lazy or don’t care. A few years ago I started calling people out on littering while fishing and while working. This usually gets someone’s attention and they at least pick up after themselves while I am there. I don’t understand...


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Thank you for going above and beyond what your job entails and trying to make a difference.

[wannabe fisherman]

simple answer is Mommy always picked up after them and didn't say anything to them

[Special K]

I am in total agreement with everything that's been said. I have been outraged with ignorance such as this for quite a while now; but I believe it has all gotten so out of hand now that there's little that can be done to change the negative momentum at this point. I'm afraid that even worse is yet to come.

[Ketchn]

it never stops yawl , I mean never , I am walking down a trail this week and about half way to the water there it is
same thing as the weekend thing, a ball of line in the trail . Cajun red line is my guess but the brand matters not .
I just stopped and looked at it shaking my head once again . picked it up ,put it in my pocket and took it to the trash can .
I don't get it for sure

[Bugslingr]

Same here at a small East Texas lake. There are several access points on the back side of the lake that get trashed so bad.ive cleaned them up several times just to come back a few days later and find it worse. I'm really tired of picking up after these non residents and wonder when these locations are going to be fenced off from the public like all the places I use to fish as a kid down on the coast that are inaccessible now because of the same reason. Kids now don't have many locations to go fish and meet their friends because of this. Sad.

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[Lund03]

I live and fish east Tennessee lakes , the trash by these lakes is unbelievable , I carry plastic bags and pick trash when I'm through fishing , the ones that really crank me are the ones that put their trash in a bag and hang it in a tree and leave it , you already did the hard part now why not take it home and put it in the trash . I had picked up several bags of trash one day , stopped at the ranger station and asked the lady if they had a dumpster to put it in , she looked at me like i had just arrived from mars , obviously she had never been asked that question before .

[Ketchn]

SAD just isn't the right word for it , we hit a spot last week that had used baby diapers laying all down the road side . not just a few but like 2 trash bags full . really disgusting and really terrible to think they are likely training the next generation to do the same thing .

[Jamesdean]

Thats what really burns me up. I know those kids didn't throw those forever stink bombs out here either.