Help California State Parks: Parks Advocacy Day on March 23

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1. Ronald Thompson says

   March 20, 2009 at 4:49 pm

   Hi John, I support much of what the California State Park System does. But I have a few, but big, bones to pick with them. The biggest, they are not dog friendly. Where I live, Crescent City, we are almost surrounded by State and National Parks, leaving only one good nearby place for walking our dogs, and that is only thanks to Del Norte County Park System. I know that one of the complaints that the State Park People have against dogs is that if they ‘pee’ near a trail the animals will not come near that area for a long time. Maybe true. But then my second complaint is that their are too many trails in the parks and that they are so wide that they impact on the experience of being in the area the walker wants to experience. Better to leave more of the parks in a wild state for both the animals and the people, not to mention the ecology.
   Until recently the only kind of bond initiative that I would vote for was for parks. That was before a new breed of park personnel took over in recent years. Now they are pompus people that think the parks are their own fiefs. Very different from the friendly, serving the public personnel of old.
   Thanks for providing a place to let me vent this. Bye, Ronald

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2. John Soares says

   March 20, 2009 at 5:27 pm

   Hello Ron. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

   As a fellow dog owner, I also wish state parks were more open to dogs on the trails. Perhaps some trails, even the majority, could be off limits, but a section of every sizable state park should have trails where dogs are allowed. And I feel the same way about national parks.

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