•Interpretive ruling re: cleaning up horse manure in Wilderness Areas •Arco Oil and Gas (no a part of BP Amoco) send seismologists by horseback to do seismic work. •Best route to the out-of-the-way site was to go by horseback through a Wilderness Areas. •EPA interpreted "pollution" to Wilderness Areas as any horse defecation of horses within the control and use of businesses travelling through areas by horseback. •Seismologists rode horses themselves but had to bring extra cargo animals and collect the defecation, put it in plastic bags and bring it back to their home base. •When news got around the ARCO offices, the e-mails and jokes went rampant, and the interpretive rule as nick-named "The Horse Shit Interpretation" of the EPA. (continued) •However, the seismologists were not amused as they had to collect the stuff and carry it back and get rid of it properly. •They said the stench was just TERRIBLE. •They also said that the manure might have helped the natural state of the wilderness. •Apparently wild horses and bears can, as they said "shit in the woods", but grain fed horses are not allowed to. •Different "outcome" so to speak. •UGH! •Remember this is an interpretive rule, not a new regulation.