It may be time for the WDFW to issue a "how to [Bleeeeep!] in the wood" printed instruction on the back of the fishing licenses.
as a side note, I was just at the WDFW launch on kitsap lake today with my son, and in the 3 hours we were on the lake a couple of rice burners were in the parking lot squirreling around... then, when we were loading the boat a bunch of kids came down and threw a bunch of empty bottles in the bushes... its not just the fishermen...
This is an excellent point. Many people visit state parks every day who are neither tweakers nor fishermen, and yes, some of whom are both. Some percentage of all walks of life are of the ilk that litter everywhere they go and can't understand why any sucker would pay to use a landfill when there are miles upon miles of access to perfectly good forests in which you can dump your garbage for free. Think those people are more likely to drop a deuce wherever they get the notion than most? If so, I think you're right. Think you can pinpoint the demographic from which a majority of such scumbags originate? If so, I think you're wrong.
Most likely (regrettably), it seems that a relatively high percentage of those people like to fish (or snag/floss fish, as the case may be for some). This explains why the Lower Skokomish has a reputation for being heavily littered and sometimes heavily turd-laiden. Also regrettably, the Skok doesn't always have snaggable numbers of fish, and that's when the public poopers head to other fisheries to conduct their $hitty shenanigans.
I'm not suggesting that the Satsop doesn't have its fair share of such people without any help from the Skok crowd - I just wanted to make the point that we've seen plenty of evidence, almost everywhere we fish, that "fishermen" don't always practice good stewardship. To bankbum's point, we need to clean up our act before we start losing more precious access to the sport/pastime/hobby we love.
I know from past coversations with Ranger Arnold that he would like to keep the access at the park open. If you think about it, launching at the park (as opposed to Decker) is a better deal for everyone - better, safer parking, much less frequent vehicle prowls, a dedicated ranger to police the area... heck, even a potential for increased Discover Pass revenues if you care about that sort of thing. Hopefully, the word will get back to whoever did this, and he will feel shame and decide to change his ways. In a world full of give and take, a $hit is something that should be given in public places more often than taken.