profdant139 wrote:
This is upsetting -- trash from essentially homeless boondockers is causing the national forests to restrict camping:
Link to article
So I will once again float a very unpopular idea -- if we were to require all boondockers to buy annual passes, these freeloading lowlifes could be evicted by the rangers right away, for lack of a permit.
I know no one wants to pay another fee. I know this proposal has no chance of being enacted. But I do not have any other plausible solution to this problem.
And if we don't figure out a way to stop this, boondocking will be a thing of the past. Simple: ban all boondockers, no trash.ban all boondockers, no trash.
If you have a better idea, I'm all ears!
I have no doubt that'll be the bureaucrats solution to the problem, but it won't solve anything. The reason they dump in remote areas is because it's REMOTE. The boodndockers aren't the problem, it's the slobs and the only way to combat that is to make the punishment worse than the crime. It'll take time and effort, but in the vast number of cases a bit of prowling through the mess can ID the culprits. Big fines and/or working at cleaning up their own and other's mess might get their attention. People who see this behavior also need to get involved in reporting and prosecuting these idiots.
