When I used to go there,it was never prospectors leaving the mess and trash,it was the general public,food wrappers,beverage cans,diapers,ect,ect..just saying.
Cya Tuna Vic
When I used to go there,it was never prospectors leaving the mess and trash,it was the general public,food wrappers,beverage cans,diapers,ect,ect..just saying.
Cya Tuna Vic
In general, I agree: Most of the water bottles, beer cans, plastic bags, dirty diapers, grafiti, and dammed up swimming holes is due to weekend lowlifes.
However, on this trip, I was disgusted by the destruction wrought by the prospectors. Most noticeable was the holes littering the shoreline, trapping fry, and leaving stagnant water sitting around where it could be in the creek proper. In addition, the re-channeling for sluice box placement does not help the stream.
But the graffiti is just modern art right? Got something against the US flag DS? Funny how you minimize what's truly doing the vast majority of the amount of damage, yet use the American flag in sarcasm ridiculing those who believe in less government intrusion. In the vid above, the so called "prospector damage" I saw looked like a fairly new pair of rubber boots set on the ground, a pack of Marlboro cigs that looked new enough to still have some in it, a few animal dens dug under a tree, a few rocks moved that will be moved again in the next torrential downpour, if one ever happens again, and a couple of holes see last sentence...
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If you are mistaking those prospector holes for animals dens, then perhaps another video is in order.
There is no question that gold prospectors negatively impact water quality or trout habitat.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...12056/abstract
http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publication...arveyLisle.pdf
Of course, as I have already pointed out, the weekend crowds do a number on the creek as well. In particular, the damming up of the creek to form swimming holes is also detrimental. I've taken a knife to many of the plastic tarp dams found along these creeks and removed the happily.
Both negatively impact the creek. Defending one while arguing over the other just picking and choosing willy nilly.
Hopefully the creek gets a good flushing this winter.
Maybe DFW will try to eradicate any trout left Yosemite-style since president Obola just declared the Gabes a national monument. And are those "urban petroglyphs" going to be federally protected like the mountain yellow legged steelhead that the trout are supposedly threatening?