Often while hiking the forests I come across man’s waste. A cigarette pack here, a bottle there and a can there. These are often left by hunters. The reason I know is that they are discarded during hunting season.
Most hunters don’t trash the woods, otherwise, there would be a lot more trash scattered about. But some leave trash at their campsites and along their trails. Last week I found something else just as disrespectful of the environment.
A hunter had used plastic grocery bags to mark his trail that led from a dirt road into the woods to where he once installed a deer stand. Deer season is over, so why didn’t he remove these unsightly bags. Maybe laziness or just an attitude of not caring.
I find where hunters mark their trails all the time. But these hunters use a trail marker tape made for that purpose. The tape is environmentally safe and it degrades over time. It is fluorescent so the hunter can find his way in or out during the dark hours.
But someone resorted to tying plastic grocery bags all through the forest for the same reason. On my next trip in, I’ll bring a bag to collect some of this debris.