Garbage is one of the most frustrating things to me. I wonder if the trash tossers have any intention of returning to that location. I also wonder what their homes look like.
A friend of mine has ATVs and we have gone camping in a dispersed camping area frequented by dirt bikers, ATVers, families in tents and travel trailers, etc. I also was knocked upside the head (metaphorically speaking) with my particular form of bigotry. For some reason I had always figured motorized recreation = garbage and lack of respect. At least in this case I was wrong. These campsites were cleaner than just about any place I have ever driven to. After conversations with several different groups I realized that many of these folks live nearby, they love the area and come back over and over and over again. They seem to have taken up a kind of ownership and responsibility for keeping their special place clean. I think that kind of attitude is key to stemming the tide of garbage and closures.
It is also heartening to see entire families out camping but that is another topic.
