Take precautions on your hiking and birdwatching adventures to prevent health problems for yourself and to protect our environment.
• Wear proper clothing, such as long pants and shirts, and insect repellent. This will protect you from deer ticks, which may carry Lyme disease.
• Stay on paths and keep off dunes with delicate grass and nesting birds.
• Watch out for poison ivy, which has three-leaf clusters.
• Obtain your physician's approval for any strenuous hiking activity.
• Wear proper clothing, such as long pants and shirts, and insect repellent. This will protect you from deer ticks, which may carry Lyme disease.
• Stay on paths and keep off dunes with delicate grass and nesting birds.
• Watch out for poison ivy, which has three-leaf clusters.
• Obtain your physician's approval for any strenuous hiking activity.