We must ban your :elmofire: treats to prevent forest fires, pollution, lung cancer, other lung damage, littering, and injury.
The power company's malfunctioning equipment that starts 80% of forest fires, the cars that produce 75% of the pollution, the cigarettes that cause 90% of the lung cancer, the COVID giving everyone lung damage, the fast food packaging and vapes that make up almost all litter are all fine though. Tragic about those 5 people per year who get a booboo from forest fire embers, though.
Colorado has long fire bans. While they take away some of the fun of camping, they caused the largest fire in state history and deprived the public of 200k acres of land. It takes that forest 20 years to regenerate and during that time the ground is so destabilised that we have a greater risks of landslides, avalanches, and flash floods.
If basic stewardship rules were enforced then I'd have no problem with year-round fires in designated areas, but people are fucking trash. They throw broken bottles in makeshift fire rings next to waterways. They leave fires smouldering beneath the dead trees from the previous fire. They leave food around so that the bears have to be shot when they associate campgrounds with a meal. We have defunded the Forest Service to the point that they have two seasonal rangers here covering almost a quarter of the state, and the slack is picked up by volunteer rangers who can't stop people being actively destructive.
Bring a propane stove and shame the people whose lack of concern for public resources endangers the commons. Those forests belong to future generations.
Oh, our fire bans also ban propane stoves, I'm pretty sure (western Australia)
Ours don't include enclosed flames for some reason. You can't operate a chainsaw, smoke outside, park off-road on vegetation, or weld at the higher level restriction.
If you can't have fire or a stove how do you reconstitute your camping food?
No idea, I just assume people go camping less during fire season. It does get hot enough that you can fry eggs if you just leave your pan out in the sun though