wet firewood sold by vendors
This happens too often. The campground store sells firewood that is too green to burn. Why do we put up with it? Not like it's cheap either; usually their firewood is ridiculously expensive. Last t...
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DiskDoctr wrote:
Many of the places we camp, the 'camp store' is a vendor who licenses to sell wood..and the same or others who sell whatever. Not really the park, except for the licensing fees they pick up.
Camp Wood is convenient, but the 'burn only our wood' is a scam that should be deemed 'conspiracy to defraud' IMHO.
Protecting our natural resources is one thing. Using that as an excuse to gouge is another. Yep, pet peeve of mine ;)
I agree. The last time we camped (in GA) we bought so-called local firewood--from Pikeville, TN. Now I don't know where Pikeville, TN, is but I know for darn sure it wasn't within 200 miles of where we were camping!
