Dan ... I agree completely that something needs to be done to control this!
A somewhat expensive annual pass or permit to "boondock" may help ... but that still means there must be enough officers/rangers available to do the checking for them and then enforce non-compliance.
IMHO, this happening is one indication of what I call "the general lowering of the standard of living" in the U.S. Sloppy and inconsiderate RV living in the wild is becoming a U.S. form of the shanty towns found all over the world. I fully accept that larger and larger groups of citizens may be having tougher economic times in their lifes and the DW and myself have helped some of them out over the years ... but this does not excuse their I-could-care-less attitude towards all things they view as "public property". They are just plain steeling from the rest of us with this behavior.
However, any means used to control these behaviors may wind up backfiring and getting the rest of us being labeled, politically, as "elitists". Given that possible eventual outcome, the rest of us who can either barely or easily afford it - will have to pay to camp in private areas where the campsite spacings are such that RV campers "feel like" they are out in the middle of nowhere boondocking. I was just reading today about some private ranches that offer this kind of experiene for RV campers - very expensive - and I sure hope that this is not what it's coming to for us boondock loving RV'ers - if the U.S. doesn't get it's act together enough to again develop a strong middle class with a return to offering better opportunities for all so that all develop respect for ... and identify with ... "their public places".
