Police want banks of Loch Lomond bonnie
Published: March 18, 2008 at 11:41 PM
BALLOCH, Scotland, March 18 (UPI) -- Scottish police plan a crackdown on vandalism and noise to make sure the banks of Loch Lomond remain bonnie.
The Trossachs National Park, which includes the country's most celebrated lake, is visited by more than 2 million people a year. Central Scotland Police say a handful of those visitors could wreck the area for everyone else, The Scotsman reports.
Police have found abandoned campsites, complete with tents, and in one case a car dumped in a wooded area with tires removed and an interior loaded with trash.
Operation Ironworks includes a number of initiatives, some aimed at educating the public about proper behavior and others at penalizing those who break the rules.
"There have been problems with tents, cars, barbecues and bags of rubbish being abandoned," said Sgt. Joyce Greenhorn, who heads the project. "Trees have even been felled in order to have a fire. That is not acceptable, especially when there may be firewood lying nearby."
The Trossachs National Park, which includes the country's most celebrated lake, is visited by more than 2 million people a year. Central Scotland Police say a handful of those visitors could wreck the area for everyone else, The Scotsman reports.
Police have found abandoned campsites, complete with tents, and in one case a car dumped in a wooded area with tires removed and an interior loaded with trash.
Operation Ironworks includes a number of initiatives, some aimed at educating the public about proper behavior and others at penalizing those who break the rules.
"There have been problems with tents, cars, barbecues and bags of rubbish being abandoned," said Sgt. Joyce Greenhorn, who heads the project. "Trees have even been felled in order to have a fire. That is not acceptable, especially when there may be firewood lying nearby."
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