Re: RC: Re: RE: Re: manure at rides et al.

[Gary Fend <garyfend@pacbell.net>]

> > At most of our county and state parks here in the SF Bay Area are okay
> > with the amount of manure being left in the parking lots.  We have been
> > happily  cleaning out our trailer messes without a single thought about
> it.
> > And these are pretty public use areas.  One is actually a paved parking
> > lot and on weekends there are usually several horse trailers there.  But
> > then again, it's usually only 1/10th full and I could see where if it
> > was filled to 100% capacity and there was manure in the parking lot
> > it could become a major issue.
>
>
> As a ride manager in the SF Bay Area, and an active trail user and worker, I
> am kind of surprised at Kathy's remark.  There are lots of negative comments
> made about horsemen leaving manure in staging areas.

> Many of the newly developed staging areas and entries to parks are requesting
> restricting use to hikers and bikers because they don't want horse manure all
> over the parking area!  It is common knowledge that we should leave any manure
> in the trailer, and if the horse happens to let loose while tacking up, it is
> best to clean this up and take it home.  We really need to keep the other
> trail users happy - they do make the difference when decisions are being made
> about where we can ride.  Unlike Howard, I feel its very important that we are
> exemplary citizens and trail users.  It's a lot easier to deal with happy park
> personnel and trail users than irritated ones!!

Laura

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