BLM Park Ranger

[Gunny]

Decent article. 

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/13/49380...ty-amid-tension-over-control-of-federal-lands
"... Just after dawn, on a rutted out dirt road west of Las Vegas, Nev., Bureau of Land Management Ranger Shane Nalen steers his four by four over a small hill.

"You never know what you're going to roll up on out here," he says, his dispatch radio squawking in the background.

A panoramic view of the rugged Nevada desert unfolds. But there's also something peculiar. The desert carpet is lit up with reflecting lights shimmering in the soft morning sun..."

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

That is a good read, nice to let people know these guys and girls aren't only out there to bust balls. I tip my hat to all these officers. It's a relatively thankless job and they're providing a service we all need that few are willing to do. With zero enforcement people just destroy things and i've never been able to figure that out about humans. How in someone's head is it ok to dump their truckload of trash out there? And humans being herd animals.....soon as a small pile of junk is found, others copy the behavior and it grows.

If my Dad ever caught me dumping trash in the wild like the couch in that picture, he'd be making me carry it out on my back to teach me a lesson.

 

[Stephen]

When I see stuff like this it makes me think that if I had been God, I would have never taught boat building!

 

[TrainChaser]

It isn't just the BLM and NF lands, it's everywhere.  Las Vegas is constantly surrounded by a ring of trash:  old cars, furniture, old sinks, pvc pipe, dead dogs, dead deer skeletons (hunters), broken dishes, rusted pipe, garden trash, a bazillion cans, cans of old paint, etc.  Regular people do it all the time, and the building and landscaping contactors use it as their personal dumping ground.  Some of them bring in loaded dump trucks of debris and just tip it into a heap and drive off.

My brother was taking a shortcut from work (LV) to home (Pahrump) and, junk collector that he is, he went off the road at one of these impromptu dumps and saw that a landscape contractor had dumped a bunch of potted plants out there.  Some were really dead, and some were fresh, so this was an ongoing habit for this contractor.  The fresh ones were potted pansies, so he stopped and started picking them up and putting them in his pickup in the flats they arrived on.

Behind him, a sheriff's deputy pulled up and asked if he was dumping.  He said, no, he was collecting these plants.  The deputy looked at the pansies and said, "My wife would go crazy if she saw these".  My brother asked if he wanted some, as he had already collected the best ones.  So he and the deputy set several flats in the deputy's patrol car trunk.

Poor timing.  The cop gets there as someone is picking up instead of dumping.  But like the article above says, there's a lot of area to cover.

In our PC society (which is just talk and no doing), people have been taught that they can do anything they want, anywhere they want, any time they want.  We are a land of people without conscience.  Whoopeedoodoo.  And heavy on the doodoo.

Our national animal shouldn't be a bald eagle, it should be a PIG.

 

[Yogidog]

Thanks for posting I am seeing all kinds of that stuff out here just took back roads from Los padres to joshua tree the garbage is cray, wild desert people, mad Maxx had to be filmed here! Thanks

 

[Headache]

In our PC society (which is just talk and no doing), people have been taught that they can do anything they want, anywhere they want, any time they want.

That describes entitled and spoiled people more than PC people. 

And GOOD timing for both your brother and the cop.  Had they swapped numbers they could have assisted each other with cool finds elsewhere.


As far as the article goes think of this, *IF* it could actually be a reality but I think you'll get the idea:

Recruit homeless RV living people that aren't chemically addicted and scatter them around these ill managed areas and in exchange for say trash, toilet dumping, potable water and portable showers and laundry they can stay in these areas if they keep an eye on them and report any unlawful activity.  They'd have to agree to be rotated around to different areas as well as pick up trash they find.

That could be a workable idea and take care of two problems.  Of course other issues would come up with an idea like that but it's my imagination, it just popped up as I read the article.

 

[Zizzer_Zazzer_Zuz]

That describes entitled and spoiled people more than PC people. 

Thanks Headache.

Don't confuse being kind to others with being an entitled asshat.  I'll stick to being PC AND responsible for myself and my surroundings.  I'll keep picking up after myself and being kind to others.  If that makes me too PC for anyone they can go pound sand.

 

[highdesertranger]

hahahahaha that's diffidently a fixer upper. highdesertranger

 

[BradKW]

Good to see Grant is making progress...

 

[rvpopeye]

WOW ! So far I see 7- 19.5 wheels............and a frame.
FLOOR UP CUSTOM RIG !!!!!!!
oHHHHHHHHH Yeahhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[DannyB1954]

Here near Pahrump Nv, the BLM built a shooting range for everyone. It does keep the junk in one spot. I have seen people using screens to sift through the berms to recycle lead, and brass casings that they then sell to reloaders. It is kind of self regulating.
Maybe at that location it would behoove the BLM to put in berms for people to shoot into. Better to have a mess in one place than dozens.