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 ...
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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