Most of the accesss to my childhood fishing haunts in both the olympics and locall dnr land have been gated or simply blocked due to illegal dumping and just plain litter.I have been picking up trash since I learned this was the reason.

A plus to these gates Is harder access to some really neat places.Alot of people would not see this as a pluss but it has kept just those people out .

Now with the quad fad in full stroke I am finding trash where I was surprised by just a foot print in the sand on the river bank.It is unfortunate.It seems that the same people that would not pick up after themselves in the first place and got the access gated,cried when they had to walk instead of drive,now own quads and haven't learned a thing.