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Last fall, we stopped at a beautiful county park near Ponca City, Oklahoma. Like always, we policed our site for trash, and found the site next to us needed attention....and then the next and so-on, and so-on. We ended up cleaning all of the sites and then looked at the shoreline where we found tons of "BUD" bottles.....In fact, we filled a small dumpster with just beer bottles! We later learned that Oklahoma has a law about having an open container in a car; people were just throwing their bottles into the brush along the perimeter of the campground. This was a very sad situation with no immediate cure.
We talked with the regional ranger, he said they didn't pick up trash anymore due to budget restraints. We watched his workers just drive through the parks several times a day and do nothing besides nursing their coffee cups.
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