Clean up or pay!

[Stradic]

Anyone read this article tonight on the Star Tribune HSOforum? Pretty ingenious how they are trying to crack down on all the littering on the ice.

http://www.startribune.com/local/83691042.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUHDYaGEP7eyckcUX

[Eelpout08]

Giver ell i say. how got dang hard is it to pick up your garbage, it wasnt too much work to carry that case of keystone onto the ice but now that its empty what, its too light for ya??

[stick]

I haven't fished a metro lake for a while (and it's not always just metro lakes I know), but I did last weekend. It was almost depressing how much stuff was lazily left out there. I probabaly took 2 brown grocery size bags off junk off the ice. I would love to see the book thrown at the violators.

[Northlander]

One of my mant pet pieves.

[harvey lee]

The fine cannot be large enough. There will still be many that will leave their garbage on the lakes.

I don't get it!!

[jwhjr]

I was out on a Metro lake last night, and suprisingly I didn't see any stray garbage. First time that's happened in awhile.

[justinlkgb]

having grown up on the lake, every year its always interesting to see what comes floating up. its too bad that there are a few that give us all the label"pigs" I say the worst is the fecal matter left in trash bags on the ice...I mean come on seriously!!

[bdafisher]

I always wonder what the insides of these peoples houses look like.

HA

[Zoob]

For the county I live in - where it seems every third car is a patrol/county-sheriff/lakes-police car; I don't see a lot of CO/GW activity on my lake - and sure it's not as actively fished as some - but there are folks leaving their [PoorWordUsage] all over. I've picked up receipts, cans, bottles, tons of cigarette butts - from dingleberries already - probably two kitchen garbage bags full of [PoorWordUsage] so far.

I've come to just patrol my area for [PoorWordUsage] left behind and toss it in my sled and shuttle it home, each time I'm out.

[Eelpout08]

I always wonder what the insides of these peoples houses look like.

HA

They are probably spotless, they left everything on the ice!

[daylate]

I think that in addition to a fine people who are found guilty should loose their fishing license for a couple of seasons!

[MJ1657]

I say hit them hard in the pocketbook. Losing their license would be ok with me to.

[bottom-bouncer]

A stiff fine plus mandatory community service picking up trash either on the ice or along shorelines in the spring. they should also have to wear high visabilty orange vests that state that they are litter violators..

[Swimbait2009]

Sometimes embarrassing someone works better than fining em. Make them wear a bright orange vest that says "Honk if you hate litter bugs!", and make em clean the streets.

[quijibo]

I would rather see them get community service, there are too many people with enough money to see it as "paying for the privilege" of littering. Let them experience the shame of picking up bagged "Wrinklekneck Brown Trout" off of the lake, while every responsible fisherman looks at them in disgust.

Adam

[Swimbait2009]

Do you know if the DNR does volunteer lake clean-up sessions? Not that it solves the origin of the problem, but I think there would be a lot of us here that would be willing to pitch in to help keep it from impacting the lakes and habitats.

[Zoob]

Who needs sessions on how to pick up garbage? ;-)

Being a ferocious supporter of LNT (lnt.org) - I've taught my boys there are there three starter rules to backpacking/camping/being-outdoors.

#1 - be quiet, if you spook the animals, you can't see them.

#2 - don't throw anything on the ground, what you bring in, you take out.

#3 - Pick up all trash you see, even if it isn't yours.

That was six years ago when they first started going into the backcountry with me, at aged 3. To this day, I still see them doing it - we went out on the lake to do ice fishing a couple weekends back - and one of my boys came trompsing back with a wrapper of sorts found on the ice. Didn't notice him doing it until he tossed it in the waste can.