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=== DON'Ts === | === DON'Ts === | ||
* 🚫 Don't do anything involving leafblowers, weedwhackers, shovels, or mattocks. | * '''🚫 Don't do anything involving leafblowers, weedwhackers, shovels, or mattocks.''' | ||
* 🚫 Don't cut, rip, or shred any ferns. This damages them and there are less and less of them each year, changing the appearance, habitat, and ecosystem of the forest. | * '''🚫 Don't cut, rip, or shred any ferns.''' This damages them and there are less and less of them each year, changing the appearance, habitat, and ecosystem of the forest. | ||
* 🚫 Don't cut or damage saplings. Anything standing vertical and alive is to remain vertical and untouched. You can move sticks, branches, and chopped wood to make room for your camp infrastructure. If you spot a tree or branch dangling menacingly over your camp, bring this to DPW's attention. | * '''🚫 Don't cut or damage saplings.''' Anything standing vertical and alive is to remain vertical and untouched. You can move sticks, branches, and chopped wood to make room for your camp infrastructure. If you spot a tree or branch dangling menacingly over your camp, bring this to DPW's attention. | ||
* 🚫 Don't rake paths or camping spots bare, as that 1) disturbs habitats unnecessarily and 2) create slick mud pits when it rains; leaf litter helps to prevent paths and camping spots from becoming outright mud puddles. | * '''🚫 Don't rake paths or camping spots bare,''' as that 1) disturbs habitats unnecessarily and 2) create slick mud pits when it rains; leaf litter helps to prevent paths and camping spots from becoming outright mud puddles. | ||
* 🚫 Don't level or terraform the ground, including to redirect rainwater or streams. If whatever you are planning on doing requires shovels or mattocks, do not do it. Especially take care not to redirect rainwater into main paths; drainways have been specifically shaped along the main vehicle accessible paths in order to allow rainwater to cross paths without damaging them or flow away from the paths altogether. Modifying these drainways or redirecting rainwater may compromise paths and impede road access in case of emergencies. | * '''🚫 Don't level or terraform the ground,''' including to redirect rainwater or streams. If whatever you are planning on doing requires shovels or mattocks, do not do it. Especially take care not to redirect rainwater into main paths; drainways have been specifically shaped along the main vehicle accessible paths in order to allow rainwater to cross paths without damaging them or flow away from the paths altogether. Modifying these drainways or redirecting rainwater may compromise paths and impede road access in case of emergencies. | ||
* 🚫 Don't remove any plant or animal life, dead or alive, from the forest. | * '''🚫 Don’t bag or trash fire pit ash;''' instead scatter them broadly in the woods (after checking for MOOP) to return those minerals to the soil. Only wood should be burned in fire pits, not cigarette butts or other trash. (Note: Ashes from fires in which toxic flame colorants have been used should not be scattered, so please avoid those chemicals or have a plan for how to deal with the ashes.) | ||
* '''🚫 Don't remove any plant or animal life''', dead or alive, from the forest. | |||
* '''🚫 Do not open areas of the rock wall that are not already open!''' This may only be done with landowner permission and will be handled by DPW. | |||
== Rule #3: Bring Lost & Found items to MOMM. == | == Rule #3: Bring Lost & Found items to MOMM. == | ||
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Firefly's Lost & Found is also known as the Museum of Modern MOOP (MOMM), and you're encouraged to caption and display any items you find and return. Also remember to check here for items you may have lost before leaving the event! There will also be a lockbox for valuables like electronics, medication, and jewelry. | Firefly's Lost & Found is also known as the Museum of Modern MOOP (MOMM), and you're encouraged to caption and display any items you find and return. Also remember to check here for items you may have lost before leaving the event! There will also be a lockbox for valuables like electronics, medication, and jewelry. | ||
== Rule #4: Don't | == Rule #4: Don't contaminate the stream or forest. == | ||
=== You can pee in the woods, but === | === You can pee in the woods, but === | ||
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* Put the seat down for best ventilation. | * Put the seat down for best ventilation. | ||
* Any deco or signage hung in the portos may use painters tape only. | * Any deco or signage hung in the portos may use painters tape only. | ||
=== If you use permethrin, apply it off-site! === | |||
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