I spent last Friday checking out a small portion of the Columbia Plateau Trail with my son Jake.
From the Cheney trailhead, we walked to Turnbull NWR, where we watched and listened to what must have been about 20,000 species of birds, give or take a thousand.
It’s a well-maintained trail system, with multiple entry points, clean restrooms, water stations, and easy access for all manner of people. And, of course, signs like this:
Regular readers of the last word will no doubt recognize the comma splice, which we’ve covered here, here, and, most recently, here.
Am I surprised? Not really. It’s stuff like this—from no less an authority than the state government, presumably—that perpetuates illiteracy. What really boggles the mind is that at no point during the process of writing, designing, fabricating, and installing these signs did someone stop, scratch his head, and say, “Wait a sec—that’s not right.”
C’mon, Washington State Parks. You’re better than this. Aren’t you?
