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Old 12-25-2011 | 06:02 AM
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Aways… and have for many years. I take pride in walking out with more than I went in with. Cans bottles and candy wrappers are always the sign post of someone's stand on public lands. I often will keep a trash bag in the back of the truck just to pick up the trash left by others especially at popular fishing spots. All the beer and pop bottles and cans as well as the worm containers look much better in the back of my truck than on the lake shore. I actually scored a great place to hunt turkey many years ago by picking up trash. There was a small but pretty productive piece of open land surrounded by a large farm parcel that didn't allow hunting. Since it was a long ways from home I tented near a river on the edge of the open land. There was a pull off spot known as the fishing access which is where many parked when they wanted to access the river. After hunting and coming out at the mid day deadline for turkey hunting I decided to gather up all the trash I could find at the access. I filled the back of the truck with bottles, cardboard, wood and a few bags of household trash. I even picked up a rusted car hood which someone threw out there next to an old stuffed chair. A few people drove past and nobody stopped or said anything. I was getting ready to settle in for the night in the tent and a truck came past that had gone by earlier and he stopped. He told me he noticed I had picked up the access and said thanks for caring. I told him I always try to leave a place better than when I got there that was the way I was taught. He looked funny and said have a good night and said good luck hunting. After the hunt the next day I came back to the truck to pack up the tent and head home and found a note on my truck thanking me for being a good steward of the land and welcomed me to hunt his farm. I didn’t know who it was that stopped and it just happened to be the farmer who had his whole farm posted. True story.
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