What bugs me, and not to offend "falt landers" is that I live out here. The Sandy and the Clack are my backyard. My turf, and it keeps getting junked up. I know country folks are slobs too but if I am in PDX and litter some tree hugging earth muffin glares, intervenes or scolds me for it. But they treat my yard like a trash bin.
When I was younger we used to leave our beer cans AND bottles on the bank when we would party, but the bum who camped out there all summer would pick em up for recycling. A beautiful symbiotic relationship. He'd also make a fire to burn any incidental trash left behind and give a hard time to anyone littering. From all my recollection he never robbed, raped, beat, molested or harmed anyone. Once the county banned him, enforceed their laws he was no more. Then the garbage and cans piled up and presto! the county closes the river spots for littering and public endangerment. Why can't ODFW/State and County/ City officials step in on these places and make an effort to keep them open? Where the hell is a SOLV rep during the seasons? It takes a HUGE squad of people to pick up trash but only one to hang out and moniter use......