Posted on 07/12/2006 9:37:33 AM PDT by george76
Biggest concern is human and dog waste contained in a trench, Forest Service says...
Between 300 and 500 people remain in Big Red Park this week after the mass exodus of people from the Rainbow Gathering in Medicine Bow/Routt County National Forest.
The Forest Service is working with these people this week to develop the environmental rehabilitation process, after an estimated 15,000 people attended the annual event.
So far, approximately 600 citations have been distributed by the Forest Service for camping and parking violations.
The Forest Service’s biggest concern regarding the rehabilitation is the human and dog waste, which is contained in deep trenches in designated areas throughout the 2-miles-wide, 4-miles-long area of impacted land, Vogel said.
Vogel has no reports of abandoned animals at this time, though the Forest Service is expecting to find some.
The hospital reports roughly 75 patients ...
Other problems :
• There was an initial outbreak of the parvovirus early in the week of the gathering in dozens of dogs, which the Routt County Humane Society addressed with $800 and 200 doses of vaccine.
• The Forest Service’s incident-management team will be costly, though no figures can be estimated at this time
(Excerpt) Read more at vaildaily.com ...
Shovels and lime
The slit trenches or the hippies?
Nasty hippies.
A hippie use a shovel? Or any tool for that matter? Surely you jest. ;-)
The work is expected to take a week to pick up all the trash that was left behind...
Go to any rock show and you'll see filth and litter generation that is mind boggling. Contrast that to events conservatives attend, no comparison.
The Rainbow Family gatherings are a magnet for outsiders who are pedophiles.
The Rainbow People are crunchier than your average Caveman, who at least orders the Grilled Chicken with Mango Chutney.
I was living in Monterey in 1968; the pigs were huddling in a corner holding their noses.
In my evolution from a befuddled teenager to a conservative young adult, one of the last dogmas of my school/liberal parents I jettisoned was the blind, unfocused worship of the environment through environmentalism. There is a difference between environmentalism and conservationism (same root as conservative). The latter involves practical, thoughtfulm generally individual measures to ensure the preservation of civilization and nature together. The former is an unbending ideology that is more about glorying in one's own self-righteousness the helping either the Earth or anything/anyone dwelling upon it.
Wait??? Litter??? The environmentalists left litter?? Surely Rove and Bush manufactured that lie.
The old media gives cover to these phony, alleged, eco-nuts...
Their dogs will run wild and kill the native wildlife, too.
Back when I lived in Missouri ten years ago or so, there was a Rainbow gathering at one of the local national parks. A lot of them became very ill because they used the bathroom upstream from where they camped. You couldn't pay me enough to step foot in a park when these are held.
I'll never forget what I saw just after everyone cleared off from Dan's Bake Sale. There was a small army of janitorial people from the city of Fort Collins lined up waiting to pick up trash...
...but there weren't even cigarette butts in the gutters. All they had to do was empty the trash containers, which were admittedly filled to overflowing (but the ones I saw were actually tastefully arranged, as if a large trash pile was trying to impersonate a flower arrangement).
The shock on the workers' faces was priceless.
When these hippies are wacked out on their drugs, they will drink from the streams downstream from their toilets.
They use the forest generally as a toilet and a dump.
"Biggest concern is human and dog waste."
The dog waste we can live with.
Drugged out psychotics are something else. We are already overloaded with them in both houses of Congress. Lets shoot them and rocket them to North Korea as a kind of a joke. OK?
They may be crunchy, but they are not crunchy cons.
You speak the truth - We attend the 4-day Creation West christian concert in central Washington almost every year - camp on the grounds and all. Never had a problem with litter or disrepecting the environment. BEAUTIFUL outdoor concert venue in the Columbia River Gorge, I must add. I surely would hate to see what it's like during some hippie-fest, though.....
Well the worst of the enviro-hippies is the "know-it-all, first-semester hippies."
Did you ever go to the Sardine Factory? I would have loved to have gone there in the day.
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That is probably as good a definition as any.
Scumbags posing as envirals.
I guess their thought processes just come out the same way they went in.
But then again, that really constitutes two thoughts in a row. Utterly unfair of me to put Democrats, Progressives and liberals to such terrible lengths, but it's for the children, you see.
Go see one of the rock shows at the Gorge, a most beautiful place agreed, it will make you ill.
The Greenies appear to be Brownies.
That is a keeper.
My son was three at the time; didn't go many places.
Took tons of pics, though.
The Forest Service’s incident-management team will be costly, though no figures can be estimated at this time
This is a big part of the problem. The Rainbows don't PAY THEIR WAY. They want other people to do it for them.
They want to worship Gaia wherever darn well they want to, then want to leave the costs behind them. Some will help with the rehabilitation, but the bill has to be eaten.
Cool! That's a drink that keeps on giving. Giardia is a nasty protozoan that will infect hippies and their dogs. I can just visualize the trip home in the VW Microbus!
I'm real surprised they used a trench.
The hippies trashed the wetlands.
Where is the NY Slimes report ?
.../s
My vote would go for the hippies.
Same here in the Kingdome that year when Promise Keepers had a huge event. Not only did they leave it cleaner than when they arrived, the local propogandists couldn't belive so many folks would attend. It was a monster event.
They used the whole forest as a toilet.
There is a King of the Hill episode about this. It was not kind to the hippies.
Unfortunately, most of the hippie types also belong to such orgs as PETA, HSUS, Defenders of Wildlife, etc. These groups give ZILCH of their millions to restore/manage wildlife populations, or even help cats ands dogs.
In contrast, hunters and anglers have contributed billions to restore/manage wildlife populations in excise taxes (Pittman/Robertson, Wallop/Breaux).
Hunters' money (excise taxes)is what purchased all the wildlife refuges, and most all public lands. And hippies, like the Sierra Clubbers, DOW, and others are now wanting to boot hunters and anglers (at least these activities) off of the public lands.
No surprise, really. I attended a Rainbow Gathering in Vermont back in 1990. the corwd was typical for that organization: dirty hippies trading sheets of LSD for oranges (their goal was to dose the world, I kid you not) and myriad felons on the run (Gatherings were notorious for harbouring criminals). Nothing scared the Forest service more than a Rainbow gathering back then. Basically all attendees were left alone for fear of any repercussions that might befall members of the Forestry service or the police.
"[Environmentalism is] an unbending ideology that is more about glorying in one's own self-righteousness the helping either the Earth or anything/anyone dwelling upon it."
Pride. Shabbily dressed, needing a good tri-tip sammich, too.
No, shovels, sawdust, and a compost pile! Conservation, an OK mulch.
I say we all pitch in, buy the land and put a hugh building that we can use for the servers, operations and functions of Free Republic. We can have a media center, broadcasting the news that the Fox News graveyard shift seems to forget about reporting. We can also use it to coordinate FReeps nationwide.
Just a thought.
I'm sure that the Forest Service has a more expensive solution but it may require a $1,000,000 study first.
I attended the Promise Keepers 3 day rally at RFK Stadium I think in 1995, same thing. After 3 days in the stadium, the place was as clean as when it started. 60K men, no litter, the bathroom floors were dry, it was amazing.
Tom
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