With the story about cleaning up the Rubicon in mind, I thought I'd add my little twist to the subject of trash.
Various organizations have organized cleanups of our local SoCal OHV areas during the past few years. These cleanups have been done at Johnson Valley and Stoddard Valley, both of which are vast OHV areas.
Though not readily apparent at a glance, both places have full coffers of refuse. Each cleanup resulted in overflowing dumpsters, even when there were a half-dozen big dumpsters on hand.
What type of trash was in the OHV areas? Did the off-road community really throw that much garbage away in our play areas? No!
Instead, what was dumped turned out to be household waste, mountains of passenger-car tires, wrecked stolen vehicles, and construction site leftovers. An entire mobile home trailer frame was dumped in the desert!
At the same time, a few off-roaders had left some stuff inexcusably behind. Among the mountains of passenger-car tires lay a few knobbies, and we discovered an empty washing machine tub and a stack of firewood next to it. For those who don't know, an empty washing machine tub makes an ideal fire ring, but the beauty is that it's PORTABLE so you can take it home with you.
As an OHV community, we're pretty good at picking up our trash and disposing of it properly. At the same time, it's in our best interest to keep our play areas clean so that they can stay open. When it comes to trash, our enemies don't know a knobby from a door knob.