An unhinged city boy living in the woods.
I hate government control myself but sometimes I think there should be a test and a permit required for anyone who wants to camp out and have camp fires. I’ve run across too many smoldering fire pits in recently vacated campsites.
There was a huge fire out in Montana a year or two ago. Thousands of acres, dozens of structures, on fatality. they traced it to some teens that had gone out camping. Found a receipt or something at the site, and also photos of the site posted on Facebook of their weekend.
Their campfire was too close to some bushes, and they didn’t dig out enough dirt (virgin camp site). They claimed to have doused the pit with water. The fire started a couple of days after they had left, and not much wind. The experts determined that the fire got into the roots of the nearby brush and smoldered underground until it reached the actual bush, and then it caught fire.