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A few broken beer bottles, some used paper plates ^nd a couple of empty food cans may not be worth much to the hunter in a hurry. But to the U.S. Forest Service, cleaning up after the hunter can be very costly.

Litter scattered over a hunter’s campsite can cost as much as SSO a pound to clean up, according to the Forest Service. Many hunter campsites are in remote areas of the forest. The cost of clean-up includes driving out to the site, collecting debris, and transporting it to a disposal area.

The cost to the hunder is also worth considering, according to George Washington officials. A person convicted of littering in the National Forest faces a fine of S25.

The George Washington National Forest is the major forest wildlife habitat in western Virginia and hosted almost 400,000 hunters in 1980. If each of those hunters left only one ounce of litter—an aluminum can and an empty cigarette pack—the

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