Lake Elsinore officials crackdown on crowds flocking to see poppies in bloom
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- čas přidán 6. 02. 2023
- Despite the boost to the economy that bloom enthusiasts can bring, Lake Elsinore public officials said that safety and conservation concerns are taking priority this year and that Walker Canyon will be closed this year. Shelby Nelson reports for KTLA 5 News at 5, Feb. 7, 2023.
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Serious crime should have as much attention.
Watch adults turn into cry babies real quick.
That's me, I'm the crybaby. I wish officials would crack down on crime and street take overs instead of worrying about flowers. It's so sad, enough to make me wanna cry.
Its easier to steal a catalytic converter, shoplift, or rob someone in broad daylight than to see some wild flowers in public property!!! These deputies have way too much time in their plate! This is horrible!!
@Telco nerd🚨 😂🤪🤣🤡🐷🐖
This makes this town sound so confrontational and unfriendly! "Come see the beautiful flowers and we'll book you in jail." How about thinking OUTSIDE the box and celebrating what is naturally unique to the area? In Japan there are places that become very busy due to seasonal cherry blossoms, change in color of the maples, festivals, etc. They have buses and other transportation that takes people from designated parking spots into desired location to avoid traffic congestion. Use rope to create set pathways and post volunteers on the mountain to ensure that people stay on the paths. I'm sure some retirees in town would be willing to help.
They wanna use the budget money for themselves rather than using it for the community (in a constructive way like you stated), so while it's good in theory in reality local government doesn't care. If anything, they'd be more than happy to continue making steps to erase the concept of public land and have it morph into "we, the government, can deem when you can access YOUR land."
@@LizBiscuit1306 If we had unfettered access to "our land" we would trash it, just like we do to every other place we're given free reign.
Then you would complain that we have no nice places to visit because the government doesn't care.
If people stayed on the trails and didn’t trample flower beds, I’m sure it could be open. Also, people shouldn’t have been impeding the movement of traffic.
99% respect the land, this is just California being stupid and restrictive as usual.
So finally there is a reason to go to Lake Elsinore and the city officials close the area.
Lake Smellsomemore
@@MediCali951 I call it the land of the living dead.
This is the stupidest thing ever.. they spend all those resources, fire department, police, an entire press conference for some damn flowers. They want to take away something that people enjoy simply because of traffic. All the problems in society today they are focused on flowers.
More than just traffic. Littering and trampling of the flowers occurred too. It was a matter of some inconsiderate people ruining it for the rest of us. If you want to get mad at someone, get mad at those people.
@@thefox47545 then just fine and ban those few people who were causing issues. Why give authority to these retards in the city hall to shut down one of the few reasons corona and Elsinore is even known for. That’s like Rome shutting down tours to the colleseum but even worse because super blooms only happen every so few years.
Damn it, people! We can’t ever have anything nice. Why the heck would you trample over the poppies. How hard is it to stay on the trails. Prob people taking selfies for their instagram posts 🙄
Sheriff Bianco how about a Zero Policy for crime? Too tough, only going after flower sniffers.
Pathetic
Elsinore got a new task force called POPPY PATROL HAHAHAHAAHHA
@@jacksonrelaxin3425 i know right? people are getting murdered stabbed robbed. God forbid someone gets to sniff some flowers. its great that the authorities got their priorities straight.
@@patrickstreasuresshop I understand the need to respond but this is pretty much the most scummy way of going about it. Instead of making money for charging admission they just block it off. It would be like shutting down the grand Tetons. Who t f do these ppl think they are
@@jacksonrelaxin3425 they need to be reminded who they work for and who pays their salary
Awesome, looks like Lake Elsinore has gotten an early start to their blooming season.
When I used to live in Palmdale, nearby the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, seemed like mid-March till mid-April is when their poppies would start to bloom.
We get them too but it's too early. We also got 17" of rain in one day & are still recovering.
Stay home don't come to Elsinore
Hopefully them closing helps the land recover without dumb people throwing garbage everywhere and trampling the flowers.
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I guess the small businesses in Lake Elsinore don’t need the extra income. A lot of flower visitors get hungry, need gas, or just want to shop. Authoritarians in Lake Elsinore say just move along, go spend money in Corona or Temecula.
They also leave trash everywhere, trespass and block driveways, stomp on the flowers, and ruin landscape. It's not worth it.
@@boardcertifiable are you a small business owner? Or do you actually work in Lake Elsinore? If not I’m not sure you can say, “it’s not worth it.”
The peasants are now not allowed in the Queens poppy shrubbery! We don't want the poppies to have to smell the peoples poorness. There has been complaints!
Public land is no longer public.
Humans can’t be humans in California
yeah cause like you heard ppl ruin the fun for others, do to littering, stomping on where they grow, making a mess w parking where you can't. if these humans followed these simple rules we wouldn't have these issue's its common sense not your backyard
They come to see nature then drop trash on the ground. I don't get it.
Carmen Gasca You'll see far worse in West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi.
@@dippitydab8270 oh couse so cal cares so much about littering. Have you been to LA lately?
@@patrickstreasuresshop La county is another story my guy. This is lake Elsinore
I spent every summer in Lake Elsinore with my cousins who lived there in the 80's & 90's so much fun an being from Long Beach we always assumed it was so far but as an adult u realize it's not, it's the dam traffic that makes it feel that way 😩🤣
Like everything else Lake Elsinore used to be a nice place back in the 1960s but not anymore
The I - 15 has grown so much . .
Let me guess it's been run by democrats for a while
Ban City Of Lake Elsinore from the public beaches
Its actually a partial federal land.
The state has no jurisdiction for some areas. Additionally, signs need to be posted along all road sites indicating the violation if parked.
They'll continue being fascists and claim it's all theirs anyways
Lake Elsinore citizens should be banned going to the beach- which has all of the same problems during the summer.
Exactly, looks like these so called officials don't want to do their jobs. Lazy government.
Exactly
China should ban Great Wall tours. Surely it would keep citizens of china and tourists safe.
Agree to blocking people to get closer and destroy them, you really don't have to be sitting or walking into the flower bed to take pictures. People are selfish!
Haha, Statists! Love your Government bootlickers, telling YOU YOUR LAND IS CLOSED hahaha.
the problem is that the public doesn't just use land ...they abuse the land ..i have been there.. people dont use the trail ...they have to walk through the flowers ..they leave their empty plastic water bottle. Candy wrappers ..cigarette butts thrown about ! people take nature for granted !
That's what I'm saying "public lands" these tyrants are out of control!
Imagine getting arrested for trespassing on public land
come to our city and trample on our flowers and I will make sure you never come back
This is so sad 😞 flowers shouldn’t be enjoyed threw a camera, but in person
I highly doubt people just show up to look at in person. All people want to do is get that social media picture.
I mean you have to see it in person to take a picture so why not lol 2 birds 1 stone
Thank all the social media influencers
@@Jaywill2687 IKR sheep 🐑
Influencers trampled them in the past few years, if you can’t behave like a civilized adult, then you can’t get in
...... Just make a hiking trail with railing
There was a designated hiking trail but people still took their own needs and desires and did not follow the trail.
I wish I was there, I would only go just because they closed it. They would put me in jail and deny bail, its California.
Wild life what wildlife?
And jerks do not stay on the trail and they trample all over the poppies just to get a good photo.
It’s about time!🙌🏼 no more flower trampling
But the side walks are open to take a crap on.
instead of providing the infrastructure and support to this beautiful demonstration of nature, they close off the entire area asking us to view it using from the camera on their website. ah yes, one reason is that we might trample flowers that would die within a month or two anyways
That's how Democrats fix Things by ignoring them.
So they should give people tickets for parking on the side of the freeway get the CHP involved
It’s public land though 🤦♂️
Yes it’s public land but it’s still land that needs to recover from the monstrosity of the people who trampled over it. These are the consequences when people put their needs over the needs of the land.
Its easier to close off everything so the officials don't have to do their jobs.
Sad, I really wanted to see them.
We should be able to enjoy nature ....set some rules for people to follow but let us inn the canyon to enjoy the flowers
They did that and nobody listened. This is the consequence of their actions.
Typical for California to take anything fun, wonderful and beautiful away from its people. Go back to work and pay the taxes for this ridiculous behavior.
“If you are a dog, you can step those flowers"
Thank you Lake Elsinore City Council and Riverside County Sheriff's for choosing community over TRENDS!!!
Emergency SHOULDERs are NOT parking spots for trendy people to go and take pictures of flowers they are for EMERGENCY VEHICLES ONLY. If you do not know how to respect an area... you do not deserve to enjoy the area! Have common sense people. 🤦
This is a public area. This is simply a strategic meltdown and the officials rather not deal with than deal with. Your trends comment is grossly displaced as there have always been flower enthusiast here in the west let alone this is a tourist attraction that bring in economic funds.
When you work for the government, you understand that this is a precursor and will later be used as a metric to reduce nature funding in the future due to it projecting that the trails will not be used as much in the future. Politics and chess go hand in hand.
@@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart I’ve been going for over 6 years and every year was complete chaos aside from the parking people would dump trash and poop 💩 so while I enjoy nature let’s be real people ruined this experience not the city or cops
so apparently people who take innocent and deep meaningful photos are very destructive and careless to the land where they take their photos. why am i not surprised.
They should focus this much in catching thief’s, murders lol but anyways I still went took awesome pictures and going back again this weekend :)
They are just brainless ephebophilia
THAT IS GREAT 👍👍👍
Just arrest all those people who post pics of poppies
I'm wondering if they'd let me get fairly close... close enough to be able to fly my drone over the flowers to get some good pictures and video. I really do understand how stupid people can be when all they want to do is tromp through the flowers to get selfies of themselves with their family. To hell with the flowers, to hell with people who have to live in the area...
It hurts the good folks that respect wildlife and local people.
So they are not letting us use our own roads that we paid for smh who’s cares about your feeling and how you feel about parking and traffic but if this was in ghetto neighborhoods they’d wouldn’t even give a dam everyone against this should be held accountable for violating our rights p.s that cop lives in the area that’s why he’s Threatening to have people arrested for going on public property lol
Everyone who is complaining about the closures are the same people who or would have trampled over the poppies for a photo. Get over yourselves. This is the best outcome for nature and wildlife.
I’ve lived there my whole life and when the poppies came a few years ago and it was terrible and now I not happy it’s back
U gotta eat a lot of poppies to get that effect I would assume 😩🤣
Is it public property? If so, how can they keep you from visiting? We don't follow rules. We follow the law. You can't keep us from our public property. You can only be tresspassed from public property if you commit a crime. Your infrastructure issue is your problem. Build better exits. Put law enforcement out there for traffic control. This is going to happen every year. Get ahead of the problem.
It’s only a 50 minute drive from my house and I LOVE nature but I’m glad there closing this area off to protect it. I’ve seen plants and flowers destroyed by humans. So when it becomes a problem some things need to be done to stop the Disrespect by humans. Everything has a cause and effect.
Unfortunately, this announcement and the delivery, makes your town sound very unfriendly...especially the part about booking people who come to see the flowers and putting them in jail. There are so many ways to enable people to enjoy the unique and natural beauty in your area without this confrontational approach. I live in Japan and have seen how they accommodate for large numbers of people who come to see cherry blossoms, festivals, etc. Buses pick up people from designated parking areas to avoid congestion into the desired location. Rope is placed along pathways, volunteers guide people where they should or should not walk. So many different and welcoming ways around this when thinking outside the box...
@@kristinab1078 this has been going on for years and the city has tried to place signs so people know to stay on the trails. I’ve seen two years in a row where people park on the side of the I15 and cars are driving very fast so it’s a dangerous situation. Also people were leaving trash and some people were pooping there. And just check instagram, you can see all the people laying on top of the flowers for selfies.
I don’t blame the city for doing this because they really did try to open the area but people who were there did not respect nature.
Only an ephebophilia can be Happy with this insane decision
It’s a misdemeanor in fraction.? Is it a infraction or is it a misdemeanor🎉
Basically - "We don't want to put our heads together and strategize on helping visitors enter and exit the canyon" Pathetic.
The mayor needs to be voted out. That’s way too extreme.
All this flowers dry after two or three months, and it's burning all millions dollars houses, it's too sad.
Colorado is CLOSED!!! To Californians
Tourists are not welcomed in Lake Elsinore!
Lake Elsinore is just a place for the ephebophilia
“Stay away “, but post and pushing advertisements on social media. Like this is really not going anywhere. 😮
PUBLIC LANDS, please visit!
I live right next to these flowers and I can actually see them from my balcony.
It’s totally unfair to restrict CA from enjoying our state flowers in full bloom. They could at least build parking structures or have cars park somewhere where there are buses taking sightseers to the poppies, like how Hearst Castle manages visitors’ cars. Trails can be created to have visitors only walk along those trails to see these flowers and not walk out of bounds, failure of which would be an immediate fine (with signs posted everywhere).
I live there several years and it was chaos some people would even defecate on site due to the lack of bathrooms. There were signs asking the public to remain on the trails but the people preferred to trample the flowers for instagram pictures.
This is why they closed it as a last resort.
@@meep2253 that’s why a more organized approach is needed…
@@nh6870 I agree with you as it would solve issues with waste and trash but as for trampling and destroying the area I think that has to come from us as good citizens to take care of nature because good infrastructure will still be destroyed by vandals and people who don’t follow the rules.
It’s ridiculous
People enjoying nature: we will book you into jail
Meth-heads breaking into cars and homes: 👍🏻 no problem.
It's about time to tell the politicians to go scratch.
Safety?
Fire season is going to be devastating this year.
No it won’t.
Arrest me then.
Let people walk in the poppy fields
I can see it now what are you in the jail for oh just viewing flowers
👍👍I approve 👍👍
Ha ha ha American's, no poppy looking for you! 😉🤟
Yeah because people don’t know how to respect nature they want to step all over the flower and wanna act like weirdos over a bunch of flowers. you just see them from far away you don’t have to go up to them and ruin them.
A bit draconian don't you think? Why don't they just create more jobs by hiring more parking enforcement for the increased traffic, and the city / county can generate more income? And hire more rangers to ticket flower stompers and generate more income for the State Parks?
Rangers can't stop people slowing/stopping on the freeways to look at the flowers
They can't stop people from boxing in others with their cars when parking
They can't be positioned every 100 feet which is what would be necessary
People who don't get out in nature much don't know how to respect it.
crack down on them. better yet charge admission
What a joke!
So sad that they closed it, lame
Narcandy 🌎🌍🌏🌌
Ah yes a beautiful front to make a illegal sowing transaction. Way to crack down! Lol!
Thank you for closing!!!! Hopefully this will also help the land recover.
Commiefornia for ya, next year they'll be charging people to come 😂
Prison Mate: I'm serving 30 years to life for drug trafficking & murder. What are you in for?
You: I was looking at flowers. 💅
What a bunch of power trip as#holes!!! Just make a parking lot! Jeez!!!! Why do people hate people with cameras so much!?
Sleep, sleep, now they'll sleep
Lol....then the Glenda the good witch will cause it to snow and they'll wake up😉
Millions of Mexicans
Good jail them all causing traffic on my commute to work and on the way home.
Allergy scratch test positive for California poppies. Time to take allergy meds
People are weird there just flower it's not that serious!!!!!!
You gonna give back the tax money we pay to keep those trails open
You have idiots everywhere no excuse
So it’s public and our taxes pay for it but we can’t access it????? Welcome to free America
America is free until people start screwing it up, ruining it for the rest of us. Freedom can have consequences. Freedom isn't free, gotta play by the rules or it gets taken away.
Welcome to the communist people’s republic of california
you dont pay taxes here because you dont live here. As a resident, I would much rather you go home instead of trampling on our poppy fields
I'm coming thru so **** you . 🤣
4 years ago you mean during COVID lock down when no one else had anything better to do. This is a grudge against the community
No, this was 2019. Before the covy
are they opium poppies? LOL
No fun
Boo!
Keep off the grass, how funny
Shelby looks like a character they coulda had in the lord of the rings movies(you know what im talkin bout) if they casted anyone other than wwwwwwhites…
This is lame
The residents come first put yourself in their shoes to the people who live around their the nightmare of traffic it causes
Hahahaha city just finding the way to make many as always fp
Lol my favorite way they sold this wrecklas scheme was attempting to sell us that yhe tens of thousands shut out were no more than social media whores looking for a pretty screen shot to post on social media
People like to complain because they can't go and see some flowers. Most people don't realize it was way more than just people on trails. People were stopping cars ON the freeway, emergency vehicles couldn't get through, hikers were injured, people were bitten by snakes, restaurants ran out of food, gas stations were out of gas, people were trespassing into other people's property, locals couldn't go about their daily lives... All so you could get a few pics for social media. Yeah I think I'll pass.
Good! Leave the flowers alone!!!!
Lol!! So they dont steal them for making h !!
They're not that kinda poppies
@@georgiacopperhead4947 really????
@@AdverbsAndNouns yeah, like really. Not a joke.
@@georgiacopperhead4947 enlighten me
@@AdverbsAndNouns There, i provided a link for you.
Pretty sure all those social media "influencers" had something to do with this...I guess it is like the military 🪖 one person Messes it up for everyone else
Baaaahhhhh. Baaaaaahhhhhhh.
Imagine leaving for work and finding out traffic is backed up/blocked bcuz of the sheeples.
Imagine ur in a life threatening emergency with ur child and ems cannot get to u bcuz of sheeples.
Anytime sheeples flock to attractions like this people get hurt/die and negative effects on others that lives nearby
The gov closes another place to see.
So ppl you realize your not really free !!!