Natures Beauty...

[nastygunz]

...except for illegal dumping...took these today on about a half mile of road...more and more land being posted and gated because of it...and the really bad part is mostly I would guess it is not the outdoors folks doing it, but they are the ones getting shut out of the land:

[Todd Rahm]

Its because the refuges want you to dispose of your trash but they want to charge $50 a truck load to do it. So most folks do exactly this.

I'm lucky I a take a truck load every other week to the dump for $5 a pop, but my brother says its getting crazy down in Indiana.

[pitw]

It's free for rate payers here but the gates are locked and only open at certain times.  Last year a fellow in town dumped his whole load down the road from my place .  I went through a bag and found out who's it was and loaded it all up and took it back for him.  He got mad, but not mad enough .

[alscalls]

You should write the editor of your local newspaper and send him/her these pics and the story.....we have a lot of the same stuff here and it is a discouraging thing to watch......they have started a free dump day here once a month and it has slowed it down a bunch.   But it has not stopped it entirely .......    

[coyotehunter_1]

That's a crying shame!!! In some areas around here it's been a problem for many years. Our county spends thousands of taxpayer's dollars and many man hours every year cleaning up sites where scumbags dump their trash. When I was a deputy sheriff, several times I drove up on illegal dumpers in the act. I'll never forget the time I caught a fellow in the process of dumping a truck load of used tires off a steep embankment, along a county road. He asked if I was going to fine him. I told the guy I would give him a written warning this time only if he recovered the tires he had already thrown off and take them to the recycling center, not two miles away. He looked at the two dozen or so tires already over the steep bank and said some of those were not his. I told him he just as well get those while he was at it. For a moment, looking at the hard work ahead, I thought he was going to have me arrest him instead. He had time to think about what he had done after about thirty minutes of hauling heavy tires up that big bank. Believe it or not he thanked me for not making it hard on him.  I grinned and then proceeded to follow him to the recycling center. Watching him unload the truck, I told him if he was ever caught illegal dumping again it would be bad. Little did he know that most of the time the court's  judgment for first time offenders was a simple verbal warning, maybe a $50 fine for second or even third time offenders. The sad thing is, usually it was the same bunch doing the dumping over and over again, I really believe he will not be one of them.  Thankfully today the fines are higher and they are cracking down, that is when they can catch them.

[nastygunz]

The picture with the dirt road and the gate leads out to a series of beautiful sod farm fields and corn fields and huge oaks along side the Merrimack River...good hunting for everything from grouse to deer...the farmer gated it because of dumping and people were driving out on the sod fields tearing up the sod. Its about a mile hike from the gate to the fields now...way to far for older or folks with a disability, and that quick hunt before or after work...Ive seen everything dumped out there from a John Deere lawn tractor to construction debris.

[msmith]

We have a free dump day too but it is once a month at 1:00 on a friday afternoon for a couple of hours. Working poeple have a hard time getting there and welfare people don't care. If their yard gets full, they pitch it along the road somewhere.