Yosemite National Park has an urgent message for visitors - please stop building cairns. If you see them, destroy them!
Leave No Trace program
is part of its wilderness ethics code that calls on visitors to follow several principles including disposing of trash, respecting wildlife, and minimizing campfire impacts. "Unfortunately, this dramatically oversized cairn is a mark of human impact and is distracting in a wilderness setting. Building rock cairns also disturbs small insects, reptiles, and microorganisms that call the underside home!" the park said on itsA large field of stacked rocks is viewed along the lower Yosemite Falls trail on August 13, 2019, in Yosemite Valley, California.
"When used appropriately, rock cairns are great for navigation, safety, and delineating a new or hard-to-follow trail. In general, rock cairns should only be constructed by rangers and trail workers," it added.
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