Re: Sierra Club

["Susan Swope-Attardi" <NAGZARUS@prodigy.net>]

Agreed.  It's a simple rule of most public forests, etc.... pack it in, pack
it out.  Should apply no matter where you are, if it's posted or not.  If
there are no trash receptacles, take your garbage with you!  Sometimes, I
don't know what people are thinking... do they expect their mommy to come by
and clean up their mess?  Overall, however, I have to say that I think most
endurance folks I've encountered are very consciencious of the
environment... more so than many of the hikers and campers.

I've always taught my kids not to litter, and when we camp, primitive or
otherwise, we always live by that rule and try to leave the place BETTER
than we found it.

Susan
SE Region-Kentucky
-----Original Message-----
From: Carrie Tyler <ctyler41@juno.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Monday, September 28, 1998 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: Sierra Club


>Heidi Wrote this on Monday:
>
>>>My experience with Sierra Club and other groups who politically profess
>to be
>"environmentalists" is that they have a tendency to want to shut anyone
>out of
>the woods who does not fit their personal ideal.  I think most endurance
>riders are TRUE environmentalists in the semantic sense of the word--we
>care
>about our environment and do our best to take good care of it.
>Unfortunately
>the word has become warped and is now almost synonymous with what seems
>to be
>a fanatical political religion bent on simply locking up our natural
>resources>>
>
>Hikers tend to cut switchbacks. Equestrians, especially those in the
>endurance world don't as a rule. Our impact, in that sense, is excellent.
>
>As far as those of us in the endurance community being true
>environmentalists, I just don't know. I crewed Tevis this year for my
>sister as my horse was lame and couldn't compete. Unfortunately her horse
>tied up and needed ringers at Robinson's Flat. We were there long after
>the last rider left. I was ashamed and aghast at the condition many crews
>left the place once they pulled out. Soda and a few beer  cans littered
>everywhere. Plastic bags, tin foil, empty electrolyte syringes laying on
>the ground. AND LOT'S OF IT! I realize the Tevis "sweep" and volunteers
>would be cleaning it up, but why should it be necessary? Pack your trash
>people.
>
>Carrie in Las Vegas
>
>
>
>
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