[Az-Geocaching] fire

[Scott Wood]

At 01:17 PM 5/19/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>As I said in a previous post, I am all in favor of closing the forests
>when in severe drought conditions. It's not worth the risk when you
>can't tell the difference between responsible people who would do
>everything to prevent a fire, and careless idiots, or even arsonists.

I don't want to start a war or anything.  While I am always opposed to 
closing public lands for any reason, I can understand why they might decide 
to do so during a drought.

That is not the reason for my post though.  Even given the best of 
circumstances  a careless idiot or arsonist is going to do a great deal of 
damage to the forest, it has very little to do with the amount of rain we 
might or might not have gotten.  If we use the above logic, it would not be 
worth the risk of having them in the forest during the best of conditions also.

What is my point?  I don't really know, but if we start going down the path 
of protecting the forest from those that are not responsible in our eyes, 
that is just the first step in closing them to everyone, 
forever.  Remember, forest fires, and bad ones, happen during non drought 
years also.




Scott
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