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LOL, very flattering picture in my little covered throne
And thank you, Mr. Thor! It was sure a pleasure to meet you, Sir. Wish we had more time to visit. Hope we meet again!A great day in the forest. Thanks to all who made that happen. Especially for the forest, but I benefitted nearly as much doing good things with fine folk.
I should have brought a cot, I needed a nap after the little exercise, fine food, and warm sun.
Ditto those thoughts!I enjoyed meeting everyone and the whole event, it was fun and a great group of folks. I needed to leave when the shooting fun began but enjoyed watching a bit, next time I will stay for the target shooting.
The cleanup made a huge difference in appearance to the locations. I enjoyed hearing what the forest service had to say about upcoming projects and solving the problems, I learned a bit more about how bullet impact superheats the fragments and can slowly start a fire, even hours after you leave. It was great to have the Forest Service out there participating and get the chance to talk and have input with what's going on. I look forward to more events
This happened during the event... (Hope I got the details right. Correct me if it's different)
Jason, of ODF, and a few others went to the second cleanup site about 4-5 miles away from the first. They had cleaned up one lane and moved on to the next. Some people showed up to shoot at the first lane. They set up their targets and were about to get started when Jason walked in and pulled their targets down. What???
They had put up beer bottles on tree branches! Gee what's wrong with that? Well, let's see... Jason told them "we're not doing that today" and proceeded to let them know why. (Not a legal target, shooting at trees, resource damage...).
Luckily, they were nice, understood and complied.
This is a typical result of how uninformed the general public is to the rules for shooting on public land. It's a prime reason why we do the Target Shooter Information Program.
Cogs
I believe you are both correct. There are those who are uninformed and then those who just do not care. While I was helping him unload the 2nd trailer into the drop box he told me about a guy he came across shooting a dishwasher. The guy gave the suspected reply when confronted ( it was already here). Jason told him that he took ownership the moment he began shooting at it. He then told him to make room for it in his vehicle because he was taking it home. When the guy began to protest he was told to either load it up or the sheriff would oversee the loading of said dishwasher.
He told me another story of catching some people littering in the spots we cleaned up.
confronted them by saying volunteers have to come out here and clean up after you. They replied something like "oh, that's very nice they clean up for us" and then proceeded to leave.
He turned them around to clean up their garbage and gave their plate number to the sheriff to have a talk with them.
sheesh people. they say never assume malice that is adequately explained by stupidity. I think we are just cleaning up after idiots.
Malice and stupidity aren't mutually exclusive! In fact they dance hand in hand!