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If you feel the need to destroy or tamper with anyones personal property for your own personal gain, you have issues. Thats what Im saying.People break laws all the time, that dont give you the authority to discard property. So a chair hasnt been used in three days or one hour. Big deal. Find another spot.Im guessing this is mostly a wetside deal?And Coach, Im only packing backstraps out now and then heading home, with said backstraps!!!!
I've never had not had a private place to hunt deer or elk in the NE corner That includes camping too.If you camp where you hunt, you are doing it wrong unless it's not a good spot to hunt in which case, again, you're doing it wrong.
Wow, the arrogance displayed here in this topic is unbelievable.
Why dont you just drive over to the GPNF hdqs and talk to them, theyll set you straight. Go in there huffin and puffin, bangin on the counter top and tell those idjuts theys morons. Pianoman stated the facts, and hes rarely if ever mistaken.
http://thenationalforests.com/the-national-forests/national-forest-camping-rules.html•Campers may stay up to 14 consecutive days within a 21-day period. Campers may not stay in the National Forests in excess of 30 days total in a calendar year.•At least one person must occupy a camping area during the first night after camping equipment has been set up. Camping equipment cannot be left unattended for more than 24 hours. The regulation you posted are from 2000. The rules I quoted were from 2008.
This might helphttp://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=352-32-030
http://thenationalforests.com/the-national-forests/national-forest-camping-rules.html•At least one person must occupy a camping area during the first night after camping equipment has been set up. Camping equipment cannot be left unattended for more than 24 hours.
Is it hunting season yet? I hope it comes soon before the hunters in here start using the emoticons to murder each other in cyberspace. Oh the carnage! How about this scenario: You've been using the same campsite for 20 years. Three generations of hunters are in your party and it's a great group. You get up to the place the weekend before to "reserve" your spot with a couple of tents and chairs. When you get up there, someone else has the whole place taken with tents and chairs already - there's absolutely no room or place to set up your traditional 20-year camp without removing the tents. No one's around and they won't be, either. You look in the tents and they're uninhabited, in fact a squirrel has taken up residence in one of them. Now, how do you feel about holding spots? I guess the tent's on the other spot now, huh?
Quote from: h20hunter on August 11, 2014, 10:01:48 AMhttp://thenationalforests.com/the-national-forests/national-forest-camping-rules.html•At least one person must occupy a camping area during the first night after camping equipment has been set up. Camping equipment cannot be left unattended for more than 24 hours. That is only for developed recreation areas (i.e. pay campgrounds). Not sure why the "anti dummy camp" guys keep trying to twist things so they don't look like jackholes for messing with people's stuff. If you take my stuff and set up your own camp, that's theft. If you like the spot and think it's "abandoned" then report it but know this...the FSO can't remove my stuff until 5 days after a written notice if he knows my name and address. If he doesn't know who's stuff it is then he/she has to wait 3 days after public notice.Code of Federal Regulation Title 36 Part 262.12 (Current as of 7/31/2014)(a) Automobiles or other vehicles, trailers, boats, and camping equipment and other inanimate personal property on National Forest System lands without the authorization of a Forest officer which are not removed therefrom within the prescribed period after a warning notice as provided in this regulation may be impounded by a Forest officer. Whenever such Forest officer knows the name and address of the owner, such impoundment may be effected at any time five days after the date that written notice of the trespass is mailed by registered mail or delivered to such owner.(b) If the local Forest Officer does not know the name and address of the owner of property in trespass, impoundment may be effected at any time 72 hours after a notice of intention to impound the property in trespass is posted in at least one place in the vicinity of the property.If someone get's there before me and takes the spot I was planning on camping at, oh well, that's their right. Bottom line is 14 days is the limit and then you need to move 5 miles. That's it.
Quote from: h20hunter on August 11, 2014, 10:01:48 AMhttp://thenationalforests.com/the-national-forests/national-forest-camping-rules.html•Campers may stay up to 14 consecutive days within a 21-day period. Campers may not stay in the National Forests in excess of 30 days total in a calendar year.•At least one person must occupy a camping area during the first night after camping equipment has been set up. Camping equipment cannot be left unattended for more than 24 hours. The regulation you posted are from 2000. The rules I quoted were from 2008.