03-03-2018, 05:58 AM
Controlling natural areas with access gates and roaming officials is generally a pain for users. But it can be necessary. A quote from the story:
Specifically, the agency points at heavy use of trucks, all-terrain vehicles...destroyed sites and caused widespread sand and soil erosion.
It is rarely tourists doing this damage; it is residents. There is some legitimate need for fisherman and hunters to travel to distant places in nature. It has been an issue for them.
Often, though, the people who want to drive big 4 wheelers all over the place are neither hunters nor fishermen (or hunting or fishing at that time). We see them at regular beach parks, where they are not content to park in the lot like everyone else. They drive over barriers to get closer to the ocean.
That's why we see boulders lined up in so many places. Quite the local custom.
Specifically, the agency points at heavy use of trucks, all-terrain vehicles...destroyed sites and caused widespread sand and soil erosion.
It is rarely tourists doing this damage; it is residents. There is some legitimate need for fisherman and hunters to travel to distant places in nature. It has been an issue for them.
Often, though, the people who want to drive big 4 wheelers all over the place are neither hunters nor fishermen (or hunting or fishing at that time). We see them at regular beach parks, where they are not content to park in the lot like everyone else. They drive over barriers to get closer to the ocean.
That's why we see boulders lined up in so many places. Quite the local custom.