Fire rings

[madmacca]

Ive seen someone asked to extinguish a stick stove at Windy Ridge (Given, the guy was sheltering it under the hut..)

Yeah, the 'under the hut' bit might have something to do with it.

Then again, someone nearly burned down White River Hut with liquid fuel (shellite, I think). Perhaps he was taking LNT a step further by trying to remove man-made structures from KNP?

[Nuts]

That paragraph doesn't make a lot of sense does it lol. The point was, even on the last day of our busiest track, here's a walker with no idea of the laws caught (a rare instance) where the best management action is bending them. A hut and park burnt down by fuel stoves (or even hut heaters) is 'legal'.

I'd much rather see specific components dealt with case by case (with infrastructure to suit) than laws to persuade those on the fringe of blind adherence to another 'easy' law.

Of course, I too would have asked him to put it out (and leant him that gas stove), that is the job as it stands.

[north-north-west]

I like a nice fire. But not in the bush. It6's too risky and not justifiable. Caveman stuff - and it's not like there are still sabre-toothed tigers out there waiting to chomp on you as soon as the light goes.
As for deadfall timber, animals live and shelter in it, lichens and fungi grow on it, its slow decomposition is part of the natural cycle of the bush. Grow up, use a stove to cook and find some other form of entertainment.

[tom_brennan]

It's too risky...

Sure is! I once melted a hole in my sock drying it in front of the fire! And I delaminated a shoe...

[DaveB]

It appears that the bushfire in Bouddi NP over the weekend may have started from an incompletely doused large fire left by boating campers at Lobster Beach on Friday morning.This was from another boatie camped a hundred metres or so away at the time.Why you'd need a fire on a 32C day with a howling norwester blowing towards the bush is beyond me.