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[Woodchuck]

Floral arrangement trim.

[Becky]

I think they sell it....for decorative junk.

  Those pickers get paid for it by the pound, then it'll get sold for crafts (wreaths etc), dry it, sell it as medicine, lots of uses for it. Some people eat it.

[Curly]

Yeah, they sell it to buyers that use it for floral arrangements.  There are pickers all over western WA; many are illegal aliens and many can't speak English.  When you see a bunch of rubber bands and plastic bags that used to have rubber bands in them, that is from brush pickers.

[Curly]

Hopefully this doesn't veer the topic too far off topic, but here is an article about DNR trying to educate pickers about hunters being out where they are picking.:

Link  This was due to a brush picker getting shot by a bear hunter that mistook the picker (dressed in black raingear) for a bear.  Also, either that same year or a year earlier another picker was shot and killed by and elk hunter down in SW WA.

[bobcat]

Or if you see where a number of people have eaten lunch and thrown all the garbage on the ground, that's a sure sign of brush pickers.   


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[jay.sharkbait]

Or if you see where a number of people have eaten lunch and thrown all the garbage on the ground, that's a sure sign of brush pickers.   


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Why is that?

[pianoman9701]

Or if you see where a number of people have eaten lunch and thrown all the garbage on the ground, that's a sure sign of brush pickers.   


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Or just a group of a-holes, regardless of why they're in the woods. I've seen hunters litter. I've seen hikers litter so bad it took me two trips to get it all out with heavy duty garbage bags. Pickers too. Littering isn't owned by one group of people.

[bobcat]

Or if you see where a number of people have eaten lunch and thrown all the garbage on the ground, that's a sure sign of brush pickers.   


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Why is that?

I don't know. I would ask them why they are slobs, but they generally don't speak English. Plus when they see you they run and hide in the brush. 


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[turkeyfeather]

Or if you see where a number of people have eaten lunch and thrown all the garbage on the ground, that's a sure sign of brush pickers.   


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Sheet, that can be from any user group in the woods.

[bobcat]

Or if you see where a number of people have eaten lunch and thrown all the garbage on the ground, that's a sure sign of brush pickers.   


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Sheet, that can be from any user group in the woods.

Maybe, but have you ever been in Capitol Forest? Most of the lunch litter I see is from brush pickers. If I had to guess I'd say 90%. I'm not talking beer cans and condoms. That stuff is from the high school partiers. Then of course the Schmidt beer cans during hunting season are from the slob hunters. But, brush pickers are out there 365 days a year, and they leave a lot of garbage.


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[snowpack]

Or if you see where a number of people have eaten lunch and thrown all the garbage on the ground, that's a sure sign of brush pickers.   


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Why is that?

I don't know. I would ask them why they are slobs, but they generally don't speak English. Plus when they see you they run and hide in the brush. 


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Littering is not seen as bad in many countries.  Very common in the third world.  When a piece of litter has value it gets picked up quickly, but there really isn't the whole mentality of 'save the planet' outside of a few countries.

[jay.sharkbait]

Or if you see where a number of people have eaten lunch and thrown all the garbage on the ground, that's a sure sign of brush pickers.   


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Why is that?

I don't know. I would ask them why they are slobs, but they generally don't speak English. Plus when they see you they run and hide in the brush. 


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I was wondering how you knew it was brush pickers......

[Grizman]

In N. Id, they pick Bear Grass for floral arrangements.  They camp in the woods from mid August until snow/rain drives them out in Oct.  They work very hard at gathering the grass blades, but boy do they leave a big mess!!  10-12 big black plastic bags needed to clean up the mess right where we set up our spike camp each year.  We have talked to them about it but after about 20yrs of cleaning up the mess, we just consider it a good deed.  F/S has tried to, but nothing changes.     

[billythekidrock]

Or if you see where a number of people have eaten lunch and thrown all the garbage on the ground, that's a sure sign of brush pickers.   


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Why is that?

I don't know. I would ask them why they are slobs, but they generally don't speak English. Plus when they see you they run and hide in the brush. 


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I was wondering how you knew it was brush pickers......

There are often other indicators as well such as location, cut limbs or shrubs, rubber bands on the ground, old gloves or raingear in the trees, aluminum foil, burrito packaging, bottles or cans in the trees.

[bobcat]

burrito packaging,

 

True that!  It's pretty obvious when the litter is from brush pickers.