Dogs Must Be Leashed on GLCT properties.
This Policy Applies to All Dogs, Regardless of Temperament, Training, or Disposition.
Why Should You Leash Your Dog?
- Protect and preserve the fragile wildlife diversity that exists on GLCT properties.
- Dogs are perceived by wildlife as predators.
- Numbers of ground nesting birds are in long-term decline on a regional basis, and they are heavily distressed by dogs and may abandon their nests if disturbed.
- Waterfowl found in streams, ponds, marshes, and vernal pools can be frightened away from their nests by a wading dog.
- Egg masses, deposited in vernal pools and marshes by wood frogs, spring peepers, and various species of salamanders, can be destroyed by a wading dog.
- Pathways that dogs and their owners have created to access wetland areas have destroyed important riparian habitat and caused significant erosion.
It’s Common Sense and Common Courtesy:
- Owners must prevent their dogs from charging and/or jumping on other hikers, especially children.
- Dogs must be controlled to stay on trails so as not to disturb flora and fauna habitat.
- Owners must remove and carry out dog waste. (Leaving a dog waste bag at the trailhead does not count as “carrying out”.)
- Hikers and Bikers (including their dogs) must yield to horses.
- Biking with off-leash dogs is not permitted.