Eliminating garbage from being dumped (poll added)

[CAMPMEAT]

ALL trailheads should have a locked box for garbage pickup, with payments of $50 per greenie, not hunters, to clean up their hippie granola bar wrappers, t.p., outhouse leftovers, (Sh!t), broken shoelaces etc.

Makes total sense to me........

[jackmaster]

I love the idea bearpaw, I also think that dumping garbage should be a higher priority with insane fines and loss of vehicle, you make it a crime with severe penalties it would also help, put hidden cameras in popular dumping spots, once people start getting nailed it will cause a serious decline in dumping, people who dump their crap in the hills are serious lowlife scum, I friggin hate those types, about as much as a rapist, or a friggin thief 

[CAMPMEAT]

Dumping will always exist. when an area gets shut down, they will move somewhere else. There isn't a solution. The lazy butts will always exist

Maybe we can have prisoners pick up the trash. We are already paying for their incarceration. Free garbage service will not stop idiots from littering.

They already pick up the state highways.

I never see the liberals making one prisoner, pick up litter, to help the lazy DOT workers survive a hard days work....

[CAMPMEAT]

ALL trailheads should have a locked box for garbage pickup, with payments of $50 per greenie, not hunters, to clean up their hippie granola bar wrappers, t.p., outhouse leftovers, (Sh!t), broken shoelaces etc.

Makes total sense to me........

I can go on about this. 25% of the mess in the woods is from hunters. Why cant people pack up there ugly and wood outhouses after hunting season, and carpet, or how about the garbage that they dump back in the trees 30 yards away from camp?  I picked up a camp on Friday and got three bags of garbage and 2 bags of beer and pop cans. I also picked up a few liquor bottles.

Haven't started about the fisherman or the off road guroos yet

I was just given you the business......

[hughjorgan]

Bear paw I like the idea. I believe like Idaho, Montana does the same. I doubt it will solve the problem but could cut down on the amount dumped. I have picked up crap off property at work and that is plenty far from any mountains. Illegal dumping is a problem from the cities to the mountains.

[snowpack]

Could maybe have FS/DNR do before/after checks on areas they allow for brush picking.  If the area has more trash than when they started, the permit holder could be required to clean it up.

[Hawgdawg]

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Boss, I always
 had sour grapes on that issue to. There taxes are rolled into their rent.

[baldopepper]

Amen Dale-it's not just a problem in the Mtns., every vacant lot in King/Pierce counties is full also.  Lazy, I'm sure, is part of it, but cost is a much bigger part on large items. (as an example I took an old mattress to the transfer station and they charged $11.00 extra for it plus another $38.00 for the rest-all in the back of a Ford F-150)  Some states have 2-3 free pickup days per year and I'd think in the long run that would be a good idea. 

[bigtex]

I think bottle and can deposit is a good idea too.

There was a bill introduced this year that would create this type of program, however it was introduced way too late for it to even get passed.

[crschralping]

That's too bad... growing up in MI you hardly ever saw a bottle or can laying in the ditch with the 10 cent deposit.

It's always a bummer finding trash, I think the ID garbage deal is a great idea.

[Elkaholic daWg]

 Yes  over here they have overcharged at the drop boxes and transfer stations for many many  years.......... about the same time junk started being dumped in the woods. Hell we've had junk dumped on our private road

[Halo]

I've always thought garbage costs should be covered by sales tax, if you are buying stuff you are making trash.

[buckfvr]

One of my pet peeves............

[fireweed]

I like this idea but it will do absolutely nothing to open up the private timberland again.  But it could remove on of the "excuses" for closing.

Bearpaw, think about this: every forestland parcel pays $17 or so for forest fire fighting.  Most of that money is then refunded if you have lots of parcels.  I also think there is a huge firefighting fund out there somewhere.  Why couldn't the law be changed to allow use of that money to clean up timberland?

[floatinghat]

FW, can you expand on the $17 / parcel.  When you say most is refunded to who and when?