(2024-03-27, 06:07 PM)edward Wrote: I believe the Park was once asking volunteers to catalog where they found balloons, and there was a map (don't recall where I saw it) showing that they were found all over.
HERE is the article (pp. 1, 6-7) I saw in the December 2019 issue of Desert Report that discusses the informal "park-wide survey [starting January 2018] asking staff to collect Mylar balloons and report their locations to get an idea of how widespread the problem is in the park." My layperson's interpretation of that low-res map on page 6 is that most balloons were found along the roads. It makes sense that quite a few were found along the heavily trafficked Badwater Road, but it does seem that Harry Wade Road and Saratoga Springs Road had many more along them than roads like Wildrose Road or 190. If the recovery locations are accurate, there were also quite a few found near Owl Lake and in the Quail Mountains. This could support the notion that balloons are more likely to be found in the southern parts of the park.