Sturtle,

I see where you are coming from but realistically its damn near impossible to really clean up lots of electronic parts, and that stuff leaches into the ground water and on and on. I just got off the phone with the Boulder Ranger District to confirm the situation up at the North Range site. Bottom line: you cannot shoot debris, anything that breaks. That includes clay pigeons. The rangers said they typically let that slide for the North Range since it used to be the old Allanspark dump anyway, but technically, no trash, debris or anything that causes litter. It does not matter if you attempt to pick it up, its a federal offense. Bottom line number two: our opinions on this don't really matter because the land owners up there are apparently writing constant letters to the District managers to get the site closed. They are sick of people shooting at night, leaving trash, etc. So, interestingly enough, the District is on the side of the shooters here and are acting as a buffer between us and local landowners. If we want to keep these few sites open we need to be respectful of other users and follow the laws. If we don't like the laws we should work with our elected officials to change them, but we need to remember that its not always "government" that we are fighting, its often other groups of people who see our behavior in a negative way. Its really going to take a concerted effort on all of our parts to pick up afterselves. Sorry for the rant