Where I come from, there is a total open fire ban = lots of cold raw meat for meals. No fire light after dark.
Probably no percentage of trying your skills here.
Seriously?.......that seems a bit harsh mate, whats the reason for it?
If I remember correctly Canada also requires non-residents who wish to hunt to do so with a registered guide, thus adding another expense. My memory of this is over 30 years old and may be suspect. Add to that the fact that I was in Alberta and am unsure if this was a national or provincial requirement.
+1 to what the other guys have said about chopping trees down.
When I looked at this thread earlier there were 202 members and 585 visitors looking at it .
I also noticed that there are 28,377 members. Also by the figures above thousands of people
watching .
If all of these people went out and chopped down a living tree that had taken 10 or 20 years to grow it is going to have quite an impact for no good reason. As someone said, take a tarp.
Gonna play devils advocate here.
(Many of us can be a touch sentimental and have an aversion to cutting anything off any living tree.)
Yes I hug trees, talk to them, listen to them, take care of them and thank them for when I have NEED to use them
(We think of trees as the mighty standards of Oak and Ash and Beech, that tower majestically in the forest, sentinel to the passage of time.)
So large trees are majestic but a poplar sapling isn't because it is "common". The life of all size living organism irrespectively, is sacred to it. (mosquitoes or eagles to them life is all they have)
(Thing is, the reality is that if every member were to go out into the Canadian wilderness, spread ourselves equally, and chop down one tree that is no more than the diameter of our forearm, then we the forest wouldn't even notice we'd done it.)
In reality how many would travel a hundred miles or more, alone just to practice "bushcraft", we would be as close as we can be, there goes at very least the scenery.
(If we did the same thing in a predominantly broadleaved area, and everyone took down one tree that they could only just hug. The impact would on the face of it be pretty devastating. But, if we left the land after doing so, within 100 to 200 years, you wouldn't notice it'd happened.)
100-200 years is a long time for our children to wait
(But in much of the northern hemisphere. Humans have been chopping down the odd tree here and there for millennia, and it isn't making a major impact on the world.)
They had to, it was reality not "practice"
I see, feel things much differently, thats me
Creator's advocate
Yes I hug trees, talk to them, listen to them, take care of them and thank them for when I have NEED to use them
So large trees are majestic but a poplar sapling isn't because it is "common". The life of all size living organism irrespectively, is sacred to it. (mosquitoes or eagles to them life is all they have)
In reality how many would travel a hundred miles or more, alone just to practice "bushcraft", we would be as close as we can be, there goes at very least the scenery.
100-200 years is a long time for our children to wait
They had to, it was reality not "practice"
I see, feel things much differently.
Devils advocate
Ok Quixoticgeek, How did you manage all those different quotes from the original post? I am trying to learn but I find it difficult.
I see things as I said differently than most, some people march to a different drum....I march to a different band
And I corrected Devils advocate, to Creator's advocate, my mistake