Carrying out camps and outdoor activities with minimal impact
Michael Schildwachter Carrying out camps and outdoor activities with minimal impact depends more on attitudes than on regulations, on an awareness to keep the places used in suitable conditions so that future groups can also enjoy them.
There are a number of concrete actions you can take to keep our camping or excursion sites clean. Just as important as knowing them is practicing them with the different groups that are being educated.
1.- Minimize what could potentially become garbage. Reimburse food in plastic bags that are easy to reduce and return. Leave bulky containers or wrappers in the city.
2.- Concentrate the use in "sacrificial zones". In areas of intensive use, it is important to concentrate the use in the already defined camping sites, to avoid the increase of
compacted soils that remain without vegetation. The ideal is not to expand this "sacrifice zone". In case of making a fire, occupy the existing "fireplace". It is important not to occupy areas where the impact is just beginning.
Leave the site clean for the next groups that will arrive. Undo new stoves that do not correspond to the established place.
Michael Schildwachter Vancouver Canada - Clear all evidence of others having camped in the area, but outside of the main camp, so this does not lead to others enlarging the slaughter area.
3.- Protect water sources. One of the types of trash that cannot be returned to the city is "dirty water."
The washing of clothes, dishes and kitchen utensils must be done outside of water sources, whether they are lagoons, rivers, estuaries or springs. A basic principle says that while the quality of water deteriorates, the quality of life deteriorates.
Michael Schildwachter The dirty water that results after these rinses should be spread widely, never concentrated. If there are leftovers of food, they must be deposited in the garbage bags that are going to be returned to the city