No Defacing Idaho Lands with Graffiti | Recreate Responsibly Idaho

Idaho Sportsmen supports the Idaho Department of Lands campaign Recreate Responsibly Idaho campaign.

“Via the Recreate Responsibly Idaho campaign, we’ve shared a number of bad-actor issues occurring on Idaho’s lands in recent times, including careless campers igniting wildfires, people leaving trash at campsites, minding your wake when boating, recreational shooters causing trigger trash, and more.

A major increase in graffiti is another issue that’s been surfacing in many parts of Idaho, including vandals defacing public property and the outdoors.

Defacing public lands and public property with graffiti is not only bad form, it’s against the law. Anyone caught in the act of defacing public lands is subject to local, state and federal prosecution.

‘It is disheartening to put the American public’s money and human effort (employees, partners, volunteers) into improving the National Forest lands surrounding the Pocatello area and have those efforts ruined with graffiti, trash, stolen signs, and abandoned campfires that can turn into wildfires,’ said Kim Obele, Westside District Ranger for the Caribou-Targhee National Forest.”