Article: Garbage Flowing at Mt. St. Helens

[Jim/WA]

...and many are abandoned elk and deer camps.

Unfortunately I find this all the time. Crap (literally) left behind, trees used for target practice and shot all to hell, carcasses, etc. I'm glad, at least, this article didn't scapegoat hunters.

[Southpole]

Those photos show a small community of tents and sundry camps that the people left.  Really, all those tents, they just walked away from?  Weird.

They probably "took" the tents from someone else so they don't really care if they leave them. They'll just "take" more where ever they relocate to.

[HntnFsh]

I don't believe you're correct about the pickers being the biggest culprits. Most of these are homeless camps and many are abandoned elk and deer camps. The pickers, for the most part, drive in daily from outside the forest or stay in campers at campsites with services. I know a great many of them.

Have you been up around the Randle, Packwood area during harvest time?

[Jason]

I don't believe you're correct about the pickers being the biggest culprits. Most of these are homeless camps and many are abandoned elk and deer camps. The pickers, for the most part, drive in daily from outside the forest or stay in campers at campsites with services. I know a great many of them.

Have you been up around the Randle, Packwood area during harvest time?

I was going to say the same thing from trout lake to the north and west. The berry picker camps easily leave the most trash in that area. They have camps with half a car lot of vehicles and they stay for the whole season, lots of California and Oregon plates.

[fireweed]

I don't believe you're correct about the pickers being the biggest culprits. Most of these are homeless camps and many are abandoned elk and deer camps. The pickers, for the most part, drive in daily from outside the forest or stay in campers at campsites with services. I know a great many of them.

Have you been up around the Randle, Packwood area during harvest time?

This must be a North/South thing with the GP.  North is commercial pickers/South homeless...