The Government Shutdown Has Cause Yosemite To Overflow With Poop. Poop Everywhere.
Ah yes, our beautiful national park system. Full of wonder and mystique. You pack up and head west, looking forward to seeing the magnificent wildlife that you have never seen before. The Sierra Nevada Big Horn Sheep, the Mule Deer, the majestic Mountain Lion, and if you’re lucky, the great American Black Bear.
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You will see serene glaciers and awe-inspiring landscapes,
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Massive waterfalls of stunning beauty
and of course….loads and loads of human poop.
AP News - Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.
“It’s a free-for-all,” Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said by telephone Monday, as Yosemite National Park officials announced closings of some minimally supervised campgrounds and public areas within the park that are overwhelmed.
“It’s so heartbreaking. There is more trash and human waste and disregard for the rules than I’ve seen in my four years living here,” Snider said.
The partial federal government shutdown, now into its 11th day, has forced furloughs of hundreds of thousands of federal government employees. This has left many parks without most of the rangers and others who staff campgrounds and otherwise keep parks running.
“We’re afraid that we’re going to start seeing significant damage to the natural resources in parks and potentially to historic and other cultural artifacts,” Garder said. “We’re concerned there’ll be impacts to visitors’ safety.”
“It’s really a nightmare scenario,” Garder said.
At Yosemite, Snider, the local resident, said crowds of visitors were driving into the park to take advantage of free admission, with only a few park rangers working and a limited number of restrooms open.
Visitors were allowing their dogs to run off-leash in an area rich with bears and other wildlife, and scattering bags of garbage along the roads, Snider said.
“You’re looking at Yosemite Falls and in front of you is plastic bottles and trash bags,” he said.
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Come on, people! Stop pooping all over Yosemite for Pete’s sake! Just because there’s no guard on duty (NPI) to tell you not to drop a deuce in the river, doesn’t mean you should be dropping a deuce in the river. If this was a test to see if we were responsible enough to take in the sights and sounds of nature on our own without the government there, looks like it’s a resounding NOPE.
I don’t even understand- why would people go to a place that looks like this
and just blatantly leave your shit, and your literal shit, everywhere? Clean it up you savages! Hopefully a black bear eats the next person who leaves their water bottle hanging around. That’s what we really need, the animals to take their land back.