[pct-l] PCT usage quotas

AsABat AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net
Wed Feb 27 12:28:21 CST 2008


Sadly, the PCT in many areas is threatened by UNDERUSE (except during
the peak season). This leads to abuse by off road vehicles, etc., and a
call to open the trail to such use because "nobody uses it."

I'm not sure how quotas would be enforced, given I have never seen any
authority on the trail, and there are many numerous trailheads to bypass
any entry point that might be established.

A big non-LNT impact in the most southern San Diego County is
immigration. Trash, particularly plastic bags and water bottles but all
other sorts including old clothing, is scattered across the brush. Wide
trails (not the PCT) are trampled with groups of 3 to 10 to I've even
seen 30 at a time, all camping together, with often no sense of how to
dispose of sanitation properly. We have seen that quotas on such use
have not been very effective. (Note: whether those quotas are good or
bad is off topic, as this is NOT a discussion on our immigration policy,
just on LNT.)




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