What impacts have you seen?
A few pictures: tamarisk, an invasive species, along a river in Utah; impacts from a beach fire and graffiti carved in a rock slab:
Monday, November 17, 2008
What is the worst impact you've ever seen?
Having spent many weeks per year in the out-of-doors over the past several decades, I have seen a lot of recreation-related impacts. Some mild, some horrific. Some due to malicious intent, others due to ignorance. Over the past year I've seen a few impacts that have rivaled anything I've ever seen before. Big fires, serious erosion, invasive species, pet waste and litter. As with all impacts, it's not the one time someone builds a big fire or the one time someone leaves litter behind. It's the cumulative impact of people doing the same things over and over again that begins to add up and create serious problems.
What impacts have you seen?
A few pictures: tamarisk, an invasive species, along a river in Utah; impacts from a beach fire and graffiti carved in a rock slab:
What impacts have you seen?
A few pictures: tamarisk, an invasive species, along a river in Utah; impacts from a beach fire and graffiti carved in a rock slab:
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I have in the past seen litter and graffiti like your pics, but recently in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks I stayed at a designated camp site where there was toilt paper inside the site proper and a lot more within 20 feet of the site. Just laying on the ground. Also a week later hiking up Algonquin Mt in the same high peaks I keep running in to TP on the trail with no attempt to at least hide it.
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