https://www.eastidahonews.com/2021/11/man-found-guilty-after-leaving-trash-broken-down-vehicles-at-campsite/A picture is worth a thousand words. With ever more people doing the "Free Camping" thing, come more idiots who will ruin it for EVERYONE.EDIT: Fixed the link for you.

Looks like they were living there. Always leave it better than you found it. We tend to pick up trash at campsites. One thing that bothers me every time, is trash put in the fire pit. I'm not burning your plastic bottles, coke cans, or tissue. Yuk.

Seems to me that the Caribou-Targhee National Forest staff need to inspect more often. Multiple complaints over how long before they looked?

That rare unibody Ford is worth enough to get that site cleaned up.....wonder why it had to get this bad before anyone did anything about it?

Those in charge know that this individual does not represent the vast majority of campers enjoying our national forests. We will always have those that are outside the norm.

Dang, I could use some of that stuff at home! :(

More garbage that'll get us ALL banned from National Forests

cptqueeg
Explorer II
Nov 05, 2021
pitch wrote:
That is not a camp site. That is a squatter site. Entirely on the forest service plate hers. No way was this accumulated in 14 days.
Forest Service needs to monitor much more closely.

The FS doesn't have money to increase the amount of LEO's. BTW it takes an extensive amount of time to build a case for squatting; it's a LOT easier said than done.
pitch
Explorer II
Nov 05, 2021
That is not a camp site. That is a squatter site. Entirely on the forest service plate hers. No way was this accumulated in 14 days.
Forest Service needs to monitor much more closely.
phillyg
Explorer II
Nov 05, 2021
One bad guy should not ruin it for everyone. And, the people in charge should have been on top of it from the get go.
Veebyes
Explorer II
Nov 05, 2021
The cost of a regular patrol of places like this has to be much less than the cleanup & the cost of running this guy into court.
BobsYourUncle
Nomad
Nov 05, 2021
That rather worn TT is a little rough, but I think I could fix it....

But seriously though, absolutely no excuse for anyone to do that kind of nonsense to the open lands.. Shameful.
ferndaleflyer
Explorer III
Nov 05, 2021
and someone has to clean up that mess
NRALIFR
Explorer
Nov 05, 2021
Good grief, theses are squatters not campers. There are already plenty of laws to handle this.

From the article: “Taking up residence on national forest system lands and/or facilities is illegal.”

The enforcement action may have moved slowly, but it did ultimately enforce the law.

Believe it or not, it’s not the first or the last time it will happen.

This will NOT result in the forests being closed to all.

:):)
Heisenberg
Explorer
Nov 05, 2021
There is always a way to leave it better than you find it.
Mayor30
Explorer
Nov 05, 2021
While that is really bad,it was one person out of thousands or millions who use our National Forest every year. He got convicted as he should have. That is not an indictment of all of us who use the forest.Most campers are responsibile.
wanderingaimles
Explorer
Nov 04, 2021
What great propaganda material for the heads of the Federal departments that want to close all of these areas to all citizen uses. Tracey Stone-Manning and her ilk will use stooges like the ones at fault here to close those areas off from ALL public use.