Of course if parents feel their children would benefit from these areas they by all means take them. These areas are not frequented by families because they are not family friendly.
Hilarious!
If the area is officially stick and flick, then I disagree but you ARE in the right as it were. In my county, only the forestry commission is stick and flick. Elsewhere, any land accessible to the public is covered by a bylaw obliging instant pick up. There is a maximum 1k fine and possibility of criminal conviction.
Dog poo is a pain to children, buggies, wheelchairs, runners and anyone who doesn’t enjoy tiptoeing through the turds. Stick and flick assumes that there are places that no one will go to, that there is an accuracy in the chucking, that the stick will be disposed of too, that the flicker will have sound judgement in where to place the deposit. I have some doubts on most of those points given that we are talking here about a hard core (minority) who think it is reasonable to hang a plastic bag with poop in on a tree.
The comparison to wildlife just doesn’t stack up. There are 9 million dogs in the UK walked on regular routes. There are half a million foxes dispersed across open country. As for cows, sheep etc - they are herbivores and the farmer is indeed subject to rules about how they handle manure. It can’t just be disposed of at will.
Use a paper bag, use an old margarine tub, fund a methane light a la the malvern hills but don’t make your problems other people’s and seek to restrict their freedom because of your choices.