BLM wants visitors to leave no trace in its sagebrush

It's already a big enough jungle out there, so humans need to poo properly, even when it means pretending you're Fido.

You would be amazed how hard it is to dig a cat hole in the Utah BLM’s Escalante slickrock (BYO photo).

Does the coyote poop in the sagebrush? The BLM sounds like it doesn’t want to know.

The Utah office of the Bureau of Land Management recently tweeted about how to dispose of human waste in a sanitary fashion on its lands when nature calls.

Some of the responses were not having it, since BLM lands aren’t known for being cleaned up after a cow makes a patty.

Bureau of Land Management Utah @BLMUtah

When nature calls... do you know to properly dispose of human waste? Choosing the proper method depends on the environment you are in. Help keep public lands & water resources healthy and beautiful: go.usa.gov/xenpq. Learn more at Gotta Go Utah: gottagoutah.org.

November 27th 2021

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Leaving politics and land management issues aside, please read and follow the BLM’s bear-in-the-woods guidelines linked in the above tweet. Utah State University chimes in too, if you want to hear it from them instead.

It’s bad enough as it is out there already.

I’ve been saying, to anyone who asks, that it’s easy to find a place to boondock camp on Utah’s public BLM lands with no facilities: Just look for a place three deep in cow patties, because everywhere else is so crowded during peak season that all two-cow patty and less sites will already be taken.

I wouldn’t want to have to amend that to three deep in droppings left by people, mad at the BLM for one reason or another.

And remember, no matter if it’s appropriate to dig a cat hole, always pack out your toilet paper because it doesn’t go away just because you put it in a desert hole. A fool-proof method is to put it in the sandwich bag you used to hold your lunch the day before.

Just remember which bag is which when you make your next sandwich.