With no bathrooms open, Yosemite visitors have created a health hazard by pooping on roads
Source: sfgate
Yosemite has closed several popular areas due to a rather disgusting public-health reason: There's human feces and urine on the roads.
Visitors to Yosemite National Park have taken to depositing their waste on the side of the park's busy roads, as the park's restrooms and visitor centers remain closed due to the partial federal government shutdown.
The park itself has remained open since the shutdown began on Dec. 22, but without trash collection and a private place on-site to pass waste, roads have become blocked in more ways than one, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"With restrooms closed, some visitors are opting to deposit their waste in natural areas adjacent to high traffic areas, which creates a health hazard for other visitors," National Parks Service spokesman Andrew Munoz said in an email to the Times.
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/outdoors/article/yosemite-bathrooms-open-gov-shutdown-park-closed-13500390.php
TexasBushwhacker
(20,256 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)in republican ShitHoleLand.
yellowcanine
(35,705 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,256 posts)WheelWalker
(8,958 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,673 posts)Too bad they can't dump their "dumps" on the steps of Mar a Lago or the White House where it belongs. Send a large, stinky package to the GOP leaders as a belated Christmas gift for shutting the govt down over the holidays (send it COD too!).
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,899 posts)affected by the shutdown? That should make Trump's day. Clean up the shit he is responsible for.
BigmanPigman
(51,673 posts)I know that the fucking moron would have the lowly taxpayers clean it up.
If those packages could be delivered to his specific jail cell once he is incarcerated than I am completely behind the "movement".
elmac
(4,642 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)How many people climb El Cap each year? This is nothing new to Yosemite.
Now raise your hand if you were already aware that this had been going on for the past fifty years?
tinrobot
(10,927 posts)Here's a how-to guide:
https://www.rei.com/blog/camp/big-wall-climbing-the-realities-of-vertical-camping
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I do recall a big push in the late 80s or early 90s to clean up the base of the big walls.
MichMan
(12,002 posts)Maybe it is the bears going by the roads now
ansible
(1,718 posts)I prospect for gold near the public areas in Yosemite there's a bear there that keeps pooping in the area I'm at. I still haven't seen him but every time I clean the poop away he's back again several days later to poop it up. Damn bear is doing it on purpose.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)Husband's ancestors came to the area during the gold rush, settled in Big Oak Flat, became prospectors, and later opened a blacksmith shop. Rumor has it that when one of the family's 13 boys was looking for money, he was told to go outside and dig for gold. Curious as to how much is left these days.
ansible
(1,718 posts)There are public areas around the Merced River are open to the public. Further up north in Big Oak Flat and all the way to Auburn there's more gold but it's harder and more dangerous to get to. Only got a gram of small flakes so far from a month of prospecting but it's still there, the rivers still keep washing down gold from the Sierra Nevada mountains. I do it more for the adventure than the hope of getting rich, but you never know.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)idea people were still panning for gold up there and that there are commercial gold panning companies. Even capturing a few flakes would make the effort worthwhile.
PatrickforO
(14,605 posts)all that feces...
cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)there that have experience in dealing with a pile of shit every day as President.
3Hotdogs
(12,467 posts)Bedminster would be a better choice since the illegal workers won't be there to have to clean it up.
IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)You don't know how many Trumpsters have told me to go back to my shithole country (born in USA) and that if people defecate outdoors, then it is a shithole country. Which is impeccable logic, as if American haven't always been doing this when camping and hunting and other outdoor activities since always.
Now Trumped up MAGAts will have to claim that Americans do this by choice, not out of poverty, so America is still superior.
Some Americans will never understand that the fees charged in some countries to use public restrooms is to pay staff to clean it and avoid vandalism, not to screw over poor people.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)This is really basic stuff.
SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)Then mail it to Mar-A-Lago.
dembotoz
(16,866 posts)EarthFirst
(2,906 posts)Im also willing to bet that someone willing to engage in this type of behavior would also have just as little respect for LNT principles had the park been fully staffed.
If youre conscious of the environment and wilderness; this is just something you dont do.
You either give a fu*k; or you dont.
Theres no third option here...
Phentex
(16,334 posts)They are probably the same ones trashing the restrooms under normal circumstances.
MichMan
(12,002 posts)They deal with it on a larger scale daily
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)pen? Would anyone want to have to clean up these messes across the country that ignorant people have left behind?
Pisces
(5,604 posts)LongtimeAZDem
(4,494 posts)"The State of Arizona has provided donated funding to assist in keeping Grand Canyon National Park open and accessible for visitors. The funding provided by the state will be used for trash collection, custodial services for restrooms, and snow removal on trails and sidewalks."
https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/grand-canyon-np-accessible-to-public-during-partial-government-shutdown-2018-12-22.htm
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)He does have a knack for soiling anything he touches....
Raine
(30,546 posts)since the visitors have no respect for the beauty of the place and use it as a toilet.