Tourists Still Lighting Illegal Campfires in Big Sur

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• Unbelievable!

• Yes, Cal, it is. Some people keep commenting about the Chimney and the Soberanes Fires coming together - a fire here could make that happen.

• This is unbelievable... I wish I could chat AT this ignorant person!

• WHEN FIRE BAN IS IN EFFECT NO OVERNIGHT CAMPING !!

• Where are the enforcers? The State Park rangers, the US Forest service rangers, California State beach life guards, Fish and game officers, as well as County Sherriffs and their deputies are all licensed to act as enforcers. All of them can give tickets or arrest people. Where are they????

  • Page, most of them do not leave the hiway, and those that do rarely hike. The USFS has left it to the Ventana Wilderness Alliance to take care of the trails, improve them and keep them clear. It might just be up to them to patrol, as well, as Keith just did.

    bigsurkate

• PS, especially since the state parks are closed! Where are these public servants???

  • AND Page, when we close entire areas like the trails north of Nacimiento, and all the State Parks, people will find somewhere else to go - and that is down here on the South Coast, where we haven't burned up yet this year.

    bigsurkate

• I'm flabergasted....

• Living a mile south of Salmon Creek, on West side Hwy.1.
  Amazing that people don't notice Fires' smell, along with the lite white ash flakes falling from our Burning Mountains to Terra Firma.
  Love sharing the Beauty, hate seeing disregard for Mother Nature and all of us creatures by NOT HAVING FIRES while the world around you is burning or smoldering.

  Somemores' - eat the Chocolate, gram -Crackers and Marshmallows cold, save a Tree and maybe an other Life.
  Think Tourists, Think!.

  To quote a famous Bear....
  "ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES"!!.

  Give them Hell Smokeybear!!!.

• It is time for all of us to ban together to turn in these bad actors to the authorities. If you see an illegal campfire, report it. You, too, can prevent forest fires.

• How about making and posting signs all along the coast: No Camping No fires. Offenders will be prosecuted, etc.?