05-31-2007, 09:21 PM
I have to agree with FG on the forigners comment...And up here in Canada a good chunk do come from south of the border...No offense intended to the responsible visitors. I've seen hunters from down south leave a duck blind, and also leave all thier wrappers from the new decoys they bought, boxes from thier shotgun shells, wrappers from thier lunches, and knee deep piles of empty hulls. Now, I can understand a wrapper might blow away. Or you fail to find a couple empty hulls when the shotgun spits them into the reeds, but sometimes there's minny landfills left in the marshes. (And I've seen local residents do the same, so I'm not trying the blame game here).
The Most littered portions of the river bank I notice are usualy recently vacated by Asian immagrants. They'll leave a hundred yards of tangled 30lbs mono, empty minnow containers...
And natives, stewards of the land, I've seen throwing all sorts of garbage around. I saw one spearing spawning pike with a pitchfork near a beaver dam, and leaving them on the bank. I ask what he was doing with them, and he admited he was only spearing them because it was fun. Another one, I saw shooting spring Malard ducks with a .22, and just leaving them because he wanted to target practice. In the Whiteshell Park, I see them netting lake sturgeon, even though they're a threatened species of fish around here.
And semi-ritch suburbanites. They drive out into the country, rip around on thier ATV's (Not always on public land, and never asking permission). They have bonfire parties, leaving hundreds of empty bottles, wrappers, broken lawn chairs, used condoms, spray paint cans (used to paint random crap on rocks and trees and anything else they feel like defacing) and all sorts of filth.
I'm starting to think there's no one left out there that actualy respects the beauty of natural places, fresh air, clean water. The plentiful animals and fish that can be viewed and hunted by all. If it was enforcable, I'd suggests barring those convicted of these sort of crimes from entering anyplace resembling a natural area or green-space or waterway...
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The Most littered portions of the river bank I notice are usualy recently vacated by Asian immagrants. They'll leave a hundred yards of tangled 30lbs mono, empty minnow containers...
And natives, stewards of the land, I've seen throwing all sorts of garbage around. I saw one spearing spawning pike with a pitchfork near a beaver dam, and leaving them on the bank. I ask what he was doing with them, and he admited he was only spearing them because it was fun. Another one, I saw shooting spring Malard ducks with a .22, and just leaving them because he wanted to target practice. In the Whiteshell Park, I see them netting lake sturgeon, even though they're a threatened species of fish around here.
And semi-ritch suburbanites. They drive out into the country, rip around on thier ATV's (Not always on public land, and never asking permission). They have bonfire parties, leaving hundreds of empty bottles, wrappers, broken lawn chairs, used condoms, spray paint cans (used to paint random crap on rocks and trees and anything else they feel like defacing) and all sorts of filth.
I'm starting to think there's no one left out there that actualy respects the beauty of natural places, fresh air, clean water. The plentiful animals and fish that can be viewed and hunted by all. If it was enforcable, I'd suggests barring those convicted of these sort of crimes from entering anyplace resembling a natural area or green-space or waterway...
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