Trash

[Dave]

We have talked about road side trash and people dumping stuff. I decided to snap a picture of this little road side camp spot. It is the Durkee swimming hole. The only place on the river with a hole deep enough to swim in. There are people camped here 3 or 4 days out of the week. I started noticing a lot of out of state plates on the cars. So one day I stopped and asked the guy how he knew of this out of the way place. He said there is an app to put on your phone for free camp spots. It is on BLM but only a few hundred feet from my property. I patrol it fairly regular in the summer to make sure people aren't having a fire. That sign board in the picture the BLM put up last summer. It has fire information including fire closures when in effect. As the unofficial camp ground host I also pick up trash. Maybe once every other year there is a small bag of trash to pick up. That is it.

 

[Travlr]

There's a canyon we like to drive up into the mountains. It's probably 10 miles before we hit aspens and another five or so before we break onto the top. There were a couple of squatters camping in two spots a couple of miles up, just past the last private land where somebody had built a nice cabin. The longer they were there, the more trash accumulated. It was really starting to look like a dump. People have camped there forever and never left it full or trash like these people were. I don't know who did it... but somebody drug a dead cow into the camp and left it. We noticed that after the one camp left, the other one left too. Once the cow got dried out, someone took what was left and all the trash away, I hope to the free landfill that is only a mile or so away.

Kind of a novel idea to stop people from camping and ruining the area for everyone else.

 

[Dave]

Practically this whole canyon is mine claims left over from the gold rush that started in 1863. So long with 3 or 4 camp sites that travelers stay on you will see people with a camp set up for a week or two while the people play gold miner on their claim. That and during the week of deer season there will be a dozen or so hunting camps. But they are always clean. The BLM only allows people to stay for 14 days. Stay longer and a deputy will come along to tell you to move. I have talked to the deputy who has that job. I have been told to let him know if there is anything needed his attention.

 

[cowman82]

I put up a heavy pipe fence to keep them out. cut them down from about 30+ ppl to 2-3 and thats only a few times a week vs. everyday. they all moved to a different spot a few miles away. I also throw all my dead animals that I catch over there in the brush. So it usually stinks all the time. I've been catching a lot of skunks so thats always good.