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By Andrew Theen |
on May 23, 2016
Park rangers on a routine patrol Sunday discovered an "incredible amount of trash" left at a popular Lake Shasta island campsite that included a number of University of Oregon-related items.
Photos of the trash left on Slaughterhouse Island at the popular Northern California lake went viral Monday and work crews are still cleaning up the remnants.
Phyllis Swanson, a spokeswoman for the Shasta-Trinity National Forest said about 60 houseboats were docked at the popular site this weekend. It's an annual, and unsanctioned trip for fraternity and sorority members along the West Coast. It's not out of the norm to have upwards of 1,000 college students on the lake, she said.
"What was different about this one," Swanson said, "is they left behind an incredible amount of trash."
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Looks like they were copying the Bundy clan
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)I've done a lot of camping over the years with friends and family. It's pretty disheartening to get to an area, even remotevareas, to find that you have to clean up other peoples garbage before you can set up camp.
You would think that people who enjoy that type of environment would treat it with a little respect, but that's not always the case.
JHB
(37,132 posts)Cleaning up afterward was "somebody else's job."
riversedge
(69,727 posts)area a few times. Beautiful. I would put these students on trash detail for a year!
hatrack
(59,442 posts)Oh, and fuck you, John Q Public.