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Leave No Trace LNT (Leave No Trace)

• Dispose of waste properly
  
  
  • Pack it in, pack it out. Inspect your campsite and rest areas for trash or spilled foods. Pack out all trash, leftover food, and litter.
    
    
  • Deposit solid human waste in catholes dug 6 to 8 inches deep at least 200 feet from water, camp, and trails. Cover and disguise the cathole when finished.
    
    
  • Pack out toilet paper and hygiene products.
    
    
  • To wash yourself or your dishes, carry water 200 feet away from streams or lakes and use small amounts of biodegradable soap. Scatter strained dishwater.
    
    
• Leave what you find
  
  
  • Preserve the past: examine, but do not touch, cultural or historic structures and artifacts.
    
    
  • Leave rocks, plants and other natural objects as you find them.
    
    
  • Avoid introducing or transporting non-native species.
    
    
  • Do not build structures, furniture, or dig trenches.
    
    
• Minimize campfire impacts
  
  
  • Campfires can cause lasting impacts to the back-country. Use a lightweight stove for cooking and enjoy a candle lantern for light.
    
    
  • Where fires are permitted, use established fire rings, fire pans, or mound fires.
    
    
  • Keep fires small. Only use sticks from the ground that can be broken by hand.
    
    
  • Burn all wood and coals to ash, put out campfires completely, then scatter cool ashes.
    
    

 

• Respect wildlife
  
  
  • Observe wildlife from a distance. Do not follow or approach them.
    
    
  • Never feed animals. Feeding wildlife damages their health, alters natural behaviors, and exposes them to predators and other dangers.
    
    
  • Protect wildlife and your food by storing rations and trash securely.
    
    
  • Control pets at all times, or leave them at home.
    
    
  • Avoid wildlife during sensitive times: mating, nesting, raising young, or winter.
    
    
• Be considerate of other visitors
  
  
  • Respect other visitors and protect the quality of their experience.
    
    
  • Be courteous. Yield to other users on the trail.
    
    
  • Step to the downhill side of the trail when encountering pack stock.
    
    
  • Take breaks and camp away from trails and other visitors.
    
    
  • Let nature's sounds prevail. Avoid loud voices and noises
    
    
• Travel and camp on durable surfaces
  
  
  • Durable surfaces include established trails and campsites, rock, gravel, dry grasses or snow.
    
    
  • Protect riparian areas by camping at least 200 feet from lakes and streams.
    
    
  • Good campsites are found, not made. Altering a site is not necessary.
    

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