Well in Snohomish County...
The County says you may be in a shooting area, but the DNR guy says no...
The pic's you see of cleaning are in places like Cedar ponds, Sultan Basin, and Granite Falls...
All but one now closed to shooting, the only one that is open is private property, and we do a half assed job at cleaning that one at best...It is just a matter of time.
Sounds like you have yourself your very own Friends of the Trails battle about to start...
You will lose!, DNR is now posting No shooting signs in legal shooting areas, and they are calling the cops without even talking with you now. ( I see this several times a month now in my job).
DNR is not your friend, Dept of Fish and Game are not your friends, and most of the deputy's have no clue if it is legal or not so they do as they are told by the Game agents, and the DNR folks...
You folks had better get on this RIGHT THE HECK NOW! or you are going to be wondering why you never even got a chance to fight it...Get out there and clean it up before Friends of the Trail do, they came out our way with the media and left HUGE piles of trash that the raked up, put huge signs on it about how bad shooters were, posted them all over town and at the local gun/sporting good shops ,and then never picked the piles up...
Funny thing is, the piles were most trash from households, Canopy's, Water heaters, computer monitors and Lots and lots of shotgun hulls....( so there is proof that shooters are involved with every little rainbow pile of hulls).
But since Shooters used this stuff as targets, guess who got the blame?...
In our area now Sultan Basin road and Cedar ponds are going unchecked and the illegal dumping is two to three times worse ....I know that I no longer do my bi-monthly clean up and dump run...I figure I was saving the state a few bucks, and keeping my shooting area clean, I did this for years, and most times out of my own pocket...
Forget em, the king can have his forest, and the tree hugging freaks of the trail can have the trash all for themselves. I will shoot when I want, I will just make sure it is not worth it for anyone to try and find me.