Re: [RC] LTE - Tucson Citizen this morning - Barbara McCrary
The only solution I can think of is for riders
to carry mini-lawn-rakes with very short handles, available at garden supply
centers. The rider dismounts and rakes the pile off the trail into the brush, or
whatever vegetation is alongside the trail. I guess some people just
aren't used to horse turds, but in my opinion, since horses are vegetarians,
their turds smell a lot more acceptable than do dogs'. There is something
about the scat of meat-eaters that is not very pleasant.
From a Tucson, Arizona paper. Boy this one could be a
problem.........
Riders should clean up after
horses Generally, I am all for multiuse of our beautiful mountain
trails. But as a cyclist, I have one gripe about horses. It is what they leave
behind.We all must leave only footprints (or tire tracks) and take only
pictures.Even dog owners clean up after their pets. Why is it OK for a horse
to make a pile on a trail and the owner leave it? Horse riders should be
required to clean up messes their animals make.- GREGG
HLAVACEK
Lee ".......and God sought to bestow upon man a supreme
mark of his blessing. God created the horse. The horse could run faster than
the deer, jump higher than the goat, and endure longer than the wolf. Man,
being encompassed by elements that sought to destroy him, would have been a
slave, had the horse not made him king."
