A Fresno County supervisor says he’ll introduce an ordinance to halt a type of human composting he recently learned has been used near the San Joaquin River, but advocates say he’s jumping the gun unnecessarily. The soil made from human remains in question was placed in a field at the Sumner Peck Ranch, land on Friant Road owned by the San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust less than 3 miles south of Lost Lake. Supervisor Garry Bredefeld said he was recently made aware of the composting, which includes a process that turns a person’s body into soil. He said he was not familiar with the process, but said using the compost on trust land was “stupid.”

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