Ugh, I live in NH and they are trying to change the law about manure on the trail at state parks.
Well if you aren’t willing to remove it/put it off the trail are you willing to pay for a trail pass so they can pay someone to come through and clean it up? Shared use areas are rough but I understand the walking populations side of it too.
Do not agree totally with this, from the article:
“You’re supposed to pick up after your dogs. There are signs about it, little green bags everywhere. Poop is poop, I don’t care who’s doing it,” he said.
There is a huge difference between dog poop and horse poop, dog poop is nasty, sticky, hard to remove, stinks…I love my dog, hate his poop! Horse poop, lot more pleasant to deal with, and is readily biodegradable.
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I would be willing to pay for a trail pass if I lived in that area. On the other hand, it’s not like horse poop is hard to see. Treat it like mud and walk around it if you are on multi use trails that allow horses. It’s not like there are all that many trails and plenty of trails that allow hiking but not horses.
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Honestly, I have no problem getting off and kicking manure off to the side of the trail and have done so if I am riding on a narrow heavily used walking trail. I am fortunate enough to still be able to mount from the ground. My horses have no issue with me getting on and off on the trail and will stand while I kick manure off or whatever I even do this while ponying a horse.
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I guess he’s not a rose grower.
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No, he’s a city slicker. With all that the name suggests.
As noted, horses are not dogs. NH gets a lot of rain, IIRC. Horse manure degrades in rain with reasonable rapidity. If you step in it it’s easy to clean up. You can pick it up, take it home, and use in your yard or garden. You don’t have to get down off your dog to police its droppings.
Foolish notion, this.
G.
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For some people mounting and dismounting can be a problem.
Small people on large horses and older people,both usually need mounting blocks or something similar which is not always easy to find on a trail.
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On the bit of trail riding in New Hampshire I have done – in the Seacoast area – there are always tree stumps, logs, rock walls, boulders etc. around. What one needs is a horse that will stand still while the rider gets on, from anything. (I am lucky enough to have one of those!)
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“(The bill) says to remove it from the trail. My theory is, someone’s riding, the horse poops, you get off and get your shovel out, scoop it up and throw it in the woods.” So this dude thinks horses come with trunks where you keep the shovels?
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Oh, for crying out loud. It’s New Hampshire. Tell him horse manure is part and parcel of his patriotic New England heritage. His ancestors rode horses on New Hampshire’s trails and and those horses pooped and nobody complained. New Hampshire’s delegate to the Continental Congresses probably left a trail of horse manure all the way from Concord to Philadelphia, to say nothing of in the city streets in both cities. Tell him to think of Paul Revere and Ethan Allen and Caesar Rodney. Horse manure helped fertilize our country as a nation. Tell him to pick up the poop himself and go plant some American Beauty roses.What does he think his ancestors did when plowing with horses? Jump over the manure they dropped? Hard enough, from what I hear, to plow around all the rocks in that New England soil. Those guys were probably glad to have only nice soft horse manure to step around, over, or in.
But if his eyesight is so bad he can’t distinguish between horse manure and pine straw, he shouldn’t be out on the trails anyway.
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The bike riders don’t like going through poop, flies up and hits their muscular bare legs.
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In my area most parks have separate trails for bikes, horses, and hikers. Some trails are shared, but most aren’t.
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:lol:
I’m giving Rackonteur’s post a standing ovation and am bursting into singing the Star Spangled Banner!
In New Hampshire, the “real” ones do. It is a badge of honor to be as filthy as possible. Maybe some twigs stuck in the teeth. Alittle blood is good too (shows you hit the granite but still lived to ride again).
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Fortunately this was practically laughed out of committee. In 2013 NH went through a really extensive re-write of the rules concerning horses and parks/open space etc and that’s what they’re sticking with.
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Last summer a bike rider stopped, whipped it out and peed on my lawn :no::eek::no:
I live in New Hampshire.
Thank you for letting me vent about that.
Carry on, folks!
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