After placing a hundred flags across the first hundred yards of the trail to raise awareness among dog owners Saturday morning, she still had not marked out all the dog feces that scarred the start of the path. "People may think that it's 7,200 acres, they have one or two dogs, what's a couple of poos a day?" asked Jakl, of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. "But it adds up, as you see." The BLM, which oversees the public lands on the former Army base, opened the popular hiking trail in the spring of 2005. The trailhead begins off Creekside Terrace Road just south of Salinas, near Portola and Reservation roads. Creekside Terrace Trailhead is a dog-friendly park, but many dog owners have not been picking up droppings, and the fetid waste is piling up. Despite previous efforts by park officials to educate the public about the dangers posed by not cleaning up after their pets, as much as five gallons of poop is picked up each week in the parking area. Rangers are hoping the pink flags will draw more attention than fliers have in the past...Californian
They should use some of that BLM stimulus money to scoop up Lassie's leavings.
Then use solar energy to process the poop into an organic fuel to be used in BLM vehicles.
That way we could smell them coming from a long ways off.
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