We had a hot 80+F day the other day in the SF Bay area and it sure would have been quenching to have the soft ice cream maker working at Muirwoods National Monument, now that they only have vanilla instead of chocolate or vanilla or both. There is a contract with a food service company and NPS, but who cares,,,certainly not NPS, since the other day the food counter only had 2 employees out front and a long line , with 2 of the soft drink taps out of stock,,,So who cares? NPS does not supervise this health-risk contract well enough to catch them serving with the same hand they picked trash off the floor of the snack stand with.
As you walk through Muirwoods National Monument these days and see all the fallen trees that NPS has 'naturally' decided not to work crew clean up and remove, are we not suppose to notice the heavy under brush along the trail and Redwood Creek that HAVE been removed by many work crew hours,,,nor the many evenly spaced ferns that HAVE been planted by many work crew hours to look as if a ground fire had done domestic natural work in recycling the dead and excess ground plant material to the poor soil as poor and much needed fertilizer for this amazing tallest tree on earth community?
What happened to all the work that was being done to remove the asphalt, that we were told by NPS was deleterious to the steelhead trout and silver coho salmon small runs, and replace it with out-sourced redwood walkways? There seems to be no more work on this,,,
So what if NPS publically does not take away fallen trees in Muirwoods, but secretly does remove and haul away the trailside brush and lots of poison oak,,,and also secretly plants hundreds if not thousands of ferns ,by hand, to prolong fooling us into thinking the natural ground fires have returned after more than 150 years to make if possible for these less than 4% remaining after logging trees to have baby redwoods instead of just clone redwoods?
Who cares.
