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[SunMan]

Gets worse and worse every year, and sadly, I expect it to get worse and worse as more and more people "recreate" in nature. Maybe someday people will learn.

[pvstoy]

Gets worse and worse every year, and sadly, I expect it to get worse and worse as more and more people "recreate" in nature. Maybe someday people will learn.

People will only learn if they are willing to or some trigger that they are forced to. By then most likely it is too late.

[Wandering Sagebrush]

I found a new place to swim Fritz this morning, nearby and handy, and totally trashed.   It's a small pond used mostly by people fishing, but it appears they have no sense of pride towards keeping their garbage where it belongs.   This was wrapped around both Fritz and me...  Just a small sample...

 

 

I will go back with some  big trash bags and clean it up...

[PackRat]

We had Russian River property as kids, between Mirabel and Hacienda across from Martinelli Rd. That was around '59 to maybe late 60's when they raised River Rd. Back then we stayed for weeks at a time, but every weekend the yahoos who rented canoes or tubed down the river occasionally tossed trash in the river or left it on the beaches. They also lost all kinds of stuff when flipping a canoe.

 

Sunday afternoons had flip-flops, thermos bottles, paddles, etc. floating downstream. The only good thing was we used to scour the riverbanks for bottles to turn in for a 3 cent or 5 cent deposit so we could buy .22 cal ammo for us kids! Man, I can't believe all the stuff we ran across in the bushes on the riverbanks! No dead bodies but everything else...we also rounded up every beer can or coke can we could for "targets".

 

Every winter when the river flooded it washed all that excrement, etc. out into the Pacific Ocean....what the heck did we know, the Earth Day idea to pick up after others really hadn't been taught to us back then! Those who stopped on our beach to picnic we kept an eye on and usually would clean up if they knew you were there and it was your property if asked nicely. Excepting for the occasional belligerent drunk of which there were some verbal confrontations with.