Respect for Property

[ncpat]

I have recently collected a lot of goose feathers from around a church pond nearby. I have fished that pond for several years. It is a popular fishing spot. 

Last few times out, I have been disgusted by the amount of litter I find. Not just incidental small stuff like bottle caps. Water bottles, soda cans, bait containers, candy/gum wrappers, etc. Found a broken fishing rod today that someone just left there. I cleaned up all I found & brought the fishing rod home to fix up. Still very usable, just a broken tip. I have found several wads of monofilament fishing line, laying on the bank & strings of it snagged in nearby shrubs. Someone could have cut the bulk of it loose in 1-2 minutes and not left a hazard & eyesore.

Let's all remember to respect the property of those who let us use it. How long does it take to clean up our trash? I will not be surprised if the church gets angry and forbids further public use of their pond. I have known other property owners to close their ponds & woods to fishing and hunting for similar reasons. Sometimes we have only ourselves to blame, or our sloppy bretheren. 

[Olanigw (Pekane)]

Truth

[Fred Arnold]

 :embarassed: yeah, I know where you're coming from. I live on a small acreage 3 1/2 miles from the nearest town (population 261) off a county maintained gravel road. This is a rural area and the road is used mostly by the locals and a handful of joyriders (beer cans, plastic beverage bottles, and a few fast food bags)  You wouldn't believe the trash thrown out of car and truck windows that litter the ditches. I hop on the bike with a box on the carrier and a couple plastic bags and clean up the mile stretch from my driveway entrance. You would think people would know better and have a little more respect for their environment.

[Gus]

Yes Sir,

Just ONE Facet of my thinking on this Sore Note is:

Leave it better than you fond it and maybe they'll have you back.

-gus

[Dharma]

Kinda makes ya wonder what these folks' houses look like.

[Thesquirrelslinger]

The place where I sling is a popular shortcut, and hiking place(well, used to be hiking place).
I check the trails each time I sling.
Now when I go up there, I have to avoid broken glass(everywhere), beer bottles, general trash, broken concrete... people just dump stuff.
Its rather irratating. Plus its diffucult to take the shortcut to "town" now on a bike, cause there is so much trash.

[bhenders]

I'm afraid you're all fighting a losing battle.  We've become the ultimate throw-away society, but keep trying...

[ncpat]

I'm afraid you're all fighting a losing battle.  We've become the ultimate throw-away society, but keep trying...

This goes beyond the throwaway issues. One can throw away a lot of stuff but use trash cans & dumpsters without leaving trash laying around the pond.   

[Newindian]

I once did a rough count of the beer cans/bottles along a 60 yard stretch of river diverted number was in the hundreds, and that's just the ones I can see. ( probably 90% Miller )

[Thesquirrelslinger]

I used to have to cross a street in a certian city near my house during school(2 different buildings cause of construction)...
counted around 300 cig butts in about a 200' strech of road.  Quite insane if you ask me.

[YosemiteBen]

Welcome to Yosemite National Park and Trash Can

TP flowers abound as well as fast food bags, diapers, cigarette butts and lots of other just plain nasty stuff!

[blackhawk]

Littering is a HUGE pet peeve of mine...one time a buddy was riding in my car with me and he threw out a coca cola can....I hit my brakes and stopped....told him to get out and go pick it up,and no I wasn't gonna throw it in reverse n back up to it...I made him walk the couple hundred yards back to go get it...I told him I wasn't moving my car until he did  ... and he did...funny thing is a few years later I ended up buying a house on that road where I currently live  ... FYI ...DONT ever litter in front of me...I'll go ape $%&@ on ya...   I could rant for a good while on this but I'll stop there

[Joec123able]

Yea I hear ya we have a lake called lake manawa here and it is just trashed I don't even go there anymore

[NimRand]

Must be the same Lake Manawa I know. I have never been there but my Son and his friends have concurred what you said.

[crooketarrow]

  I fish alot in the summers and do the same everyyear. I also pick up lots of geese feathers.
  Nothing worse than fishing line on geese and ducks. I've even caught muskrats and turtles with scares from line. And once as a kid found a otter floating dead in a pond with line around his neck a front legs.
  Not to many days back I picked up a ball of line that streached 50 feet down the bank.
   VERY SAD