How often are Calgarians not picking up after their pets? A group of researchers mucked through several parks and came up with an educated guess.
About 127 grams of dog poop, per hectare, per week, is left behind in Calgary parks — that’s the equivalent of 169 poops per hectare over six months. According to the city, there are more than 8,500 hectares of parkland and natural areas in Calgary.
In randomly selected places within city parks, Alessandro Massolo and other researchers would put a stake in the ground and use a 10-metre length of rope to plot out sites.
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