If Going Green is Your Thing, or Environmental Protection matters to your neighborhood association, then average citizens can set out to catch individuals who are inappropriately dumping trash, or destroying property with grafitti.

With modern Infrared Night Vision Scouting Technology from HuntSports and the proper use and placement of No Flash Infrared Cameras, your neighborhood watch programs can put a real bite on crimes like "illegal trash dumping" and "gang grafitti", and also provide positive crime deterrent benefits, and the photographic means to catch and prosecute offenders if that is your goal.

State Departments of Natural Resources (DNRS) have used deer scouting camera and video cameras for years in wildlife surveillance projects. Now almost anyone at any level can afford to help Keep Their neighborhood, town or city beautiful, by partnering together in pilot projects to help reduce illegal dumping, gang grafitti, and other illegal activities through the use of electronic scouting camera surveillance cameras.

One example is underway in IOWA where the DNR and the Keep Iowa Beautiful Organization are exploring potential areas in Iowa and selected currently have selected one recurrent illegal dump site to initiate a pilot project. The location selected will not be released until the conclusion of the project sometime in 2010. The reality is that Illegal dumping costs Iowans more than $3 million each year, according to the Keep Iowa Beautiful executive director. Costs to counties, cities and the Iowa Department of Transportation is in the millions annually. One glaring example illustrates that the $126,000 it cost to clean up an illegal roadside dump site would have cost only $ 1250.00 if all the materials dumped illegally had been taken to the landfill and properly disposed of or recycled.

The main reason DNR's get involved is because they are frequently contacted by the public to investigate illegal dumping activities on private land, and Illegal dumping is also a problem in state parks and various wildlife areas, requiring time and resources of DNR Parks and Wildlife Staff to properly manage the area and materials.

The biggest problem with standard CCTV equipment is the limitations created in terms of power requirements and image resolution. Most locations attractiing the illegal dumping and grafitti gangs are hidden out-of-way places, unlit and dark sanctuaries without ready access to power. HuntSports has a number of infrared set-ups using no flash scouting cameras with solar panels and gel-cell or deep cycle battery power with both day and night capabilities, so the camera can effectively record the dumping and also capture the license plate information to send out fines or aid in arrests and prosecutions.

For more information visit www.HuntSports.com or email the security team at Info@HuntSports.com to help your neighborhood association design a program.