Pack Out The Trash

Whether you are hunting public land or private, it's upsetting to walk out to a beautiful piece of wilderness only to find beer cans, potato chip bags and other assorted trash lying around. To us at least, it really detracts from the experience of being in nature. It's disrespectful. It's easy to avoid. Please help by doing what you can to minimize this blight.

Pack Out Your Own Trash. For starters, please make it an ironclad rule that you will take back out with you any and all garbage you generate in the wilderness. Hey, if you can carry in a twelve-pack of pop (or whatever) on your big broad shoulders, surely you have the strength to carry the empties back out. The same goes for candy wrappers, food cans, plastic bottles, chip bags and all the other packaging materials that are so unsightly in a natural setting.

Pack Out Others' Trash Too. Apparently, there will always be some folks who don't care enough to restrain themselves from leaving trash behind. So go the extra mile... pick up their garbage and pack it out with you. Show your young huntin' buddy a good example and leave each place you visit a little better than you found it!

Leave No Trace. Other things you can and should do to help maintain the wilderness as far as possible in pristine condition:

	Keep your vehicle to established roads and jeep tracks - don't cut new ones all over hell and gone
	Avoid cutting down trees, hacking off their branches etc.
	Be extremely careful about how you build campfires - and don't build them at all when fire danger is high
	Police up your camping areas when you break camp, leaving them as little disturbed as possible

It's all common sense. Be a good steward of the parts of the wilderness you visit, whether it be public land or private land.