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.

Violation of these policies may result in a municipal fine; repeat offenders may be barred from GLCT properties.