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wood fires at Arapiles 8-Jun-2011 At 2:03:51 PM bones

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On 8/06/2011 crazyjohn wrote:
>>One final reason I am opposed to the ban.....Parks is apparently unable to enforce the current illegal practices
>of firewood gathering. How is forcing Parks to monitor even more illegal
>activities supposed to work? The assumption is that the users of the park
>will not want to break the new law. My question is why would they break
>one law and not the other? The obvious reason is that users are not aware
>that gathering wood is such a serious problem. Otherwise, if they are just
>careless criminals it would make no difference what laws you had. How will
>users be aware that the new ban is in place? BY PUTTING UP A BIG SIGN!
>Well, obviously, a big sign that tells users in no uncertain terms firewood
>gathering is illegal may work. Logically it has the same chance as putting
>up a big sign that bans fires!
>

I agree with ALMOST everything CJ has said, although I think it is easier to monitor a ban on fires than it is to monitor a ban on gathering firewood in the park.