new years resolution

Retired, respect your efforts as I also pick up other peoples trash up there. The real shame is the more you pick up after the scumbags the more they expect it. Its kinda like the nys welfare system, the more you give them the more they want. It really is sad that grown men, mostly, cant carry the stuff they bring in back out, its freakin lighter on the way out, and thanks to all who also practice this its a shame we have to do it, but I thank you if you do. Tight lines now and in the year to come!

As retired L/E one can grow weary of the often simplistic resolutions folks give on how to care for  some of these conditions however it aint rocket science to watch anyone carrying in a coffee cup in the morning and watch them toss it on the way to the river. PINCH.
 Then have a litterbug of the week PHOTO on each shop front door- Just like the 'john of the week' they do in Cities to try and stop the hooker trade.
  You will never stop either completely but Geeeze slow it down.

Even the local tribs are hog pens.   The A holes go as far as to hang their coffee cup in a tree.  The next week I go back there are about 10 cups in that tree like they were decorating a Christmas tree.   I think everyone that is ticketed on the river for any offense especially littering should be sentenced by the judge to pick up xxx number of bags of trash.

We own alot of farm land and I went to the extreme of placing game camera and going through trash to find the owners and then gathering it up and placing it on their front yards.   We had one offender that was dumping motor oil and filters.  I crossed the filters and found the only house on the road the cars in the driveway that matched the filters.   I then bottled up 2 gallons of usedoil and the filters and placed it in the center of the driveway with a large sign saying " I think you lost these".   Our littering has gone down quite a bit since I returned trash to 4 to 5 different houses

Been thinking about it even more now; even if I had a large team of contributors to help change bags I still think it would be a negative aspect of positive thinking... people should pick up after themselves...bottom line... maybe signs asking to please pick up trash and at the most maybe a bundle of trash bags hung under the signs...

Slobs should be ticketed...bottom line..

ORIGINAL: retired guy

Hey Dime how bout- "your on camera-litterbugs will be prosecuted and sued".

that's a good one rt; I imagine I'll come to find them sprayed with shotgun skat if I say that though...lol...

ORIGINAL: retired guy

Hopefully it has given the Deer and Turkey  an extra chance to prep for the true Winter. They really need it up there if my place is any example over the past coupla years.

The weather is not the problem for the lack of game up there.
think two-legged varmints.

.....gotta put food on the table somehow...........

Yes the poachers are taking more and more around here too.   The CO lives only a few houses up and they do not care.  I still find carcasses around here all the time.   The problem is NOT people taking them for food, I have no issues with that at all,  if your family is hungry you do what you got to do. People who are hungry take the whole deer and use it.  It is ****holes shooting them and just cutting out the straps and leaving the rest to rot.  I found 4 such carcasses this year.    The CO caught 2 poachers last year hunting the neighboring farm.  They took out 8 deer that he knows of, probably more.   He came up this fall and told me to keep my eye out for them this year.   Issue is that after he wrote the tickets the town court lost the paperwork and had to dismiss the charges.   Guess what, they were back this year same place, same guys less than a mile from the CO's house.  Opening day 2 guys 3 deer, none tagged,  all does, no doe tags.  He waited until they left and ticketed them for illegal transport too and a few other obscure things too.   He personally saw the case through this year

I rarely buy into that carp bout havin to shoot a lot of Deer for winter food. Wadda they eat the other 3 seasons. All too often the same people sayin that stuff drive a newer truck and have all the other nice motorized toys too- and always a case- --no bucks for food though- gotta poach- bovine field splatter.
  Never did Jersey Dime but the Catskills for a long time.

About 30 years ago, when I was on the Conservation Council down here in WNY, we had a meeting to try to determine a solution to an overpopulation of deer in a park adjacent to a suburban area. Bow hunting was proposed, but the archers did not want to be on the news with Bambi bleeding out on some 10 year old girl's front steps, and there was a general ban on gun hunting in the parks. One woman got up and suggested that there was great habitat up around Pulaski and up into the Tug Hill, but low deer populations, and they could trap the deer and transfer them up there. The Region 8 Wildlife manager at the time got up and asked her if she thought they should release the deer live so the locals could harvest them immediately, or just do the butchering first and save everyone the bother of shooting up the area. Oswego County has been full of poachers for years, and Lewis and Jefferson have their share as well. And if you can afford the firearm to shoot the animal, you can find a way to eat without breaking the laws and stealing everyone else's chance at some game.

Of course, the 18 feet of snow every winter helps to thin the herd as well.

L13

No resolutions for me just more of the Same..
Hope 2011 was good to all and 2012 even better !!

Peace & Tuna from the ADK's