[pct-l] Dogs in National Parks/horses/mules/llamas

[Brick Robbins]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Charles Williams
<charlesnolie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> And this too, I'd just asoon that horses did less damage to the trail too.  Some people think that horsemen, by virtue of the fact that they ride and lead horses and mules, care less about our wildlands than hikers do.<

IMHO, the amount of damage done by individual horsemen is negligible.

HOWEVER I have a beef with the damage done by the pack trains run by
the commercial pack outfits. I object to over use of public lands,
especially wilderness areas, by commercial concerns.

There is nothing wrong with stock on the trails. There IS something
wrong with overuse of the trails by commercial enterprises using
stock.

YMMV