keeping clean in the desert

[badknees]

LOL, in other words, as to avoid ANY confusion.....buy some creosote at a nursery somewhere in Brewster County, take it home and burn it. And PLEASE keep the receipt if driving back through BIBE!

I always stop on the way out at the corner of 385 and the BGWMA/Stillwell turn, and cut a few branches to take home. I have it on my desk and can smell the desert perfume when I get the urge to go to the Bend. Helps a little.

[SHANEA]

Did You Know?
The predominant shrub found in Big Bend National Park is creosote. While most shrubs lose their leaves in winter, creosote can maintain its
resinous foliage year round. After a rainstorm, the shrubs can "green-up" again
and often produce small yellow flowers several times a year. more...
http://www.nps.gov/bibe/naturescience/plants.htm

[Undertaker]

Scotch, good single malt. Don't tear up the creosote.

[presidio]

Perhaps a bit of a damper, but I thought it was generally illegal for visitors to burn wood in Big Bend, even if hauled into the park . . . I'm having trouble remembering how many creosote bushes I've seen in Big Bend.

Yep, and you'll get hammered for burning anything.

I believe it was Carl Sagan who said the desert had millions and billions of creosote bushes.

[badknees]

Perhaps a bit of a damper, but I thought it was generally illegal for visitors to burn wood in Big Bend, even if hauled into the park . . . I'm having trouble remembering how many creosote bushes I've seen in Big Bend.

Yep, and you'll get hammered for burning anything.

I believe it was Carl Sagan who said the desert had millions and billions of creosote bushes.

yeah, not hardly an endangered species!

[sleepy]

Perhaps a bit of a damper, but I thought it was generally illegal for visitors to burn wood in Big Bend, even if hauled into the park . . . I'm having trouble remembering how many creosote bushes I've seen in Big Bend.

Yep, and you'll get hammered for burning anything.

I believe it was Carl Sagan who said the desert had millions and billions of creosote bushes.

yeah, not hardly an endangered species!

at least not until Dow Chemical figures how to make that bush profitable and begins strip mining the desert for creosote.

[presidio]

at least not until Dow Chemical figures how to make that bush profitable and begins strip mining the desert for creosote.

Not a problem. It is Dow CHEMICAL. They will synthesize the odor/extract/essential oil from petroleum.