ppine wrote:
Mostly I stay out of the National Parks because of all the rules, large numbers of people and the civilian dog police.
Native people in the bush nearly always have dogs. They have been doing that for 10,000 years.
I have worked with every government agency you can think of in the West. The National Park Service has their own set of protectionist rules not shared by anyone else.
National Parks have a higher standard of protection for a reason. They are special places that are not like some county dog park. If everybody took fido into our national parks, it would look like a city dog park. There would be dog poop from sea to shining sea. These uncaring people can't even pick up there cigarette butts or TP.