Chainsaw ?

SideHillSoup wrote:

crosscheck wrote:

SideHillSoup wrote:
In BC you can cut fire wood, however you need to have Free permit from the Forrest service office in the area that you want to cut wood in. You just go into a BC Forrest service office ask for a fire wood permit, and they will tell you where you can cut and where you can’t cut. The permit is more for keeping track of who is cutting trees in a location, and they also will tell you where they don’t want you cutting like active logging roads ( safety against you getting whacked by a logging truck on some tight switch back... )
I should also add that you can’t cut or even pick up off the ground a branch or any other part of tree in BC Provincial parks or any Canadian National park. Lots of people do, but your not supposed to..... ( bad...)

Soup.

To answer the OP question asumming they are talking about camping and not domestic firewood gathering, never. Truck camping, a medium sized bowsaw will rip through fairly large sized logs(10"), and for backpacking/wilderness canoe trips, a collapsible bow saw which can cut up to 6" logs, 4" optimum.

I am not advocating breaking local laws but many of the National and Provincial parks we have backpacked in over the last 50 years all have well used steel fire rings at campsites many km from the trailhead. No one is packing in their firewood plus all of their other camping items in the many hours it takes to hike to these developed sites. Where does the wood come from?

Dave

Dave....
It doesn’t matter if it is fire wood gathering or bring in 6 cords of wood for the winter.... you still need the permit to cut dead or alive trees......
In national parks as well as B.C. provincial parks, fire wood gathering is a no no.... yes. As I said people do it... and Dave you are correct.... back woods camping well off the grid, you can gather fire wood and use it to cook and keep warm.... I apologize for that error....
But the question was chainsaws.... and Dave if you have ever back packed up the bush for what ever reason,,,,, a chainsaw is not the tool I wood take to cut anything...would you?
Hence the posters question.....( chainsaw)
Dave....I’m telling them the Rules..... they can do what they wish, what happens if they get caught .....IF they do something wrong, it is their problem.
And please tell me where in BC you have found a steel fire ring many km’s from a trail head?
Maybe a fire pit...built of rocks..... but highly unlikely a steel fire pit with out road actress, where a backpacker would haul in a chainsaw....
Just trying to help people Dave,
If you have more facts and rules on tree cutting ( fire wood gathering ) that I don’t know... please share them with me and the rest of the world.
Soup.

I never said I have more facts and rules on tree cutting. I had to look up the rules for Provincial and National parks. What I was trying to get across is that there are permanent steel fire rings in Provincial and National parks far from trail heads that are well used, meaning, lots of fires. If the authorities really were wanting to Inforce the regulations, there would be no permanent fire rings and signs stating, no fires or wood gathering. Dead wood is being harvested near these campsites for fires all the time.

To answer your question on these fire rings, one of the many backpack trips over the years we have done, was from Waterton to Jasper( still have to finish to Kakwa PP). It is called the Great Divide Trail. Many campsites in the Provincial and National parks had permanent fire rings with no road access. This is just one of many backpacking and wilderness canoeing trips we have taken over the years. Many go through Provincial and National parks and backcountry wood gathering and fires are very prevalent.
I am not here avocating breaking rules, just giving my observations on what i have seen in the many years tramping around in our big country.

Dave