Campsite Squatters

Seminoe Joe wrote:
What’s wrong with being a tree hugger exactly?

I'm a tree hugger.

I to am an environmentalist. I just enjoy exploring the great outdoors on my ATV.

jimh425 wrote:
I didn’t hear anyone say it was wrong to be a treehugger, but from looking online at the definitions ... I don’t think anyone driving a big truck with a truck camper will qualify for that term.

do as I say, not as I do.

bumpy

Seminoe Joe wrote:
What’s wrong with being a tree hugger exactly?

only the most rabid ones are "wrong"

bumpy

JIMNLIN wrote:


Animal poo in the woods isn't concentrated in one spot for years but scattered around the area they frequent nor do they dump harmful chemicals in the woods...... unlike humans.

you obviously haven't seen the pile of deer poop around the salt block in my backyard.

bumpy

specta wrote:

covered wagon wrote:
I look at things the way they are going and it increases my faith to see the stage being set for those things foretold many centuries ago.

They had gray water issues centuries ago? :h

one thing foretold many years ago was that we were headed for an ice age. guess it stalled out. :s

bumpy

I didn’t hear anyone say it was wrong to be a treehugger, but from looking online at the definitions ... I don’t think anyone driving a big truck with a truck camper will qualify for that term.

What’s wrong with being a tree hugger exactly? I’m one and I am not going to hide my love of nature and the environment because it’s become cool to mock people who don’t want to trash the natural world. That said, I poop and pee and dump dish water when I’m out camping because...it’s natural. Dish soap in small concentrations, buried in sand isn’t going to kill forests or grasslands. Per and poop contain nitrates and organic matter and moisture for plants and bacteria.
But back to the original question of this thread, it seems to me that the guys occupying a spot for weeks on end, but only physically being there for a day or two are the very best thing for the environment. They certainly have minimal impact, no?

Grey water being dumped wasn't all just out in the woods but rather on campsites. It wasn't tree huggers in this part of the world that first complained of this practice. Our camp sites stank and we the campers complained and soil samples taken by the state/COE/counties environmental folks showed extremely high levels of the wrong type bacteria and other chemicals.
Our kids actually played in what ever the last campers had drained out on the campsite. Some less enlightened campers said they saw nothing wrong with watering campsite trees/grass/shrubs with grey water.....never thinking long term.

Animal poo in the woods isn't concentrated in one spot for years but scattered around the area they frequent nor do they dump harmful chemicals in the woods...... unlike humans.

No, cause the wildlife will just throw the dirty diapers into the bushes, like the humans do, especially near rest stops...

ticki2 wrote:
I wonder how they're going to stop the wildlife from poop in' in the woods :@

Diapers.