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- RWDIIIExplorerBuy it before you get there
if 3 rigs in your campout,share the fire. - harold1946ExplorerIt is not illegal to collect firewood as long as it is not private property or state trust land, or otherwise posted.
It must be dead, no cutting of live trees. Mosquite is the best and used by many of us for cooking burgers and steaks.
Be sure not to burn paloverde, you will not like it. The smell is awful. - GoldwingCapeCodExplorer
tatest wrote:
If you want wood fires, you will have to buy wood from someone who brings it into the desert. Unless you are talking about the wetter deserts where some brush and mesquite grows, but most of the places you will be permitted to set up your RV, vegetation is likely to be protected.
Desert natives will build dung fires.
Tatest
Dung fires!! I'll bet that will po the "I hate campfire crowd" - tatestExplorer IIIf you want wood fires, you will have to buy wood from someone who brings it into the desert. Unless you are talking about the wetter deserts where some brush and mesquite grows, but most of the places you will be permitted to set up your RV, vegetation is likely to be protected.
Desert natives will build dung fires. - coolbreeze01ExplorerWood pallets are bad because of the nails left behind, being scattered, and flattening tires.....
- robsouthExplorer IIAll of it has already been burned up. That is why it is a desert. :E
- Desert_CaptainExplorer IIIYou can bring it :B or buy it. :E Buying = not much wood for a lot of $$$.
- palehorse89ExplorerWal-Mart! $6.00 per box , 2 boxes for a good night fire.....great smell from fire.....pine.
- SCVJeffExplorerIf in Q, there is a guy across from Gamblers that sells it reasonably
- Ranger_SmithExplorerFirewood . . . Desert . . . ?????
Does it get cold there???
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