[Ranger Smith]

My only complaint about folks burning driftwood is it smells like creosote. But if I'm not downwind of it, to each their own.

[contour5]

Care should be taken when selecting driftwood pieces for your massive, towering beach inferno. Dry pieces will ignite more easily and burn faster and hotter. They are easy to identify by their relatively light weight, compared to the heavier, waterlogged and mineral-impregnated chunks. Any chunk that is extremely heavy for its size should be discarded- these salt saturated pieces; which may have floated for years in transit from Alaska or East Asia, will frequently give off noxious odors which may be mildly toxic. Anything that burns with a green flame is likely contaminated with creosote or other toxic wood preservatives. Or, just burn it all, and stand safely upwind as the toxic-laden smoke from your burnt offering spirals heavenward into the night sky. Hail, Prometheus!

[tom roy]

[joker]

[wolffie]

Reminds me of a time I was on the Olympic coast. Mild weather, no fire needed. Some folks upwind of me started a huge toy fire. Wet wood, smoking like a locomotive, smelled like burning railroad ties. It was already dark, but I broke camp and hiked a mile upwind of them to a rathole camp with clean air. I get to breathe dirty air over 300 days a year. That's not what I go to the wilderness for. Remember, when you assess the costs of anything you do, that you're not the only one paying them.

[SKS]

Oh,yeah. Good ol' driftwood! As a boy growing up in Montana we would be down along the Missouri River and look for a nice stick of driftwood to smoke. That was our original cigarette. Fortunately I gave it up once I learned I was supposed to inhale.

[tom roy]

Idiots ruin it for the rest of us. that's why we want to comply to his wish, we frequent the park and I don't want to harassed, Just want tor rent a boat get some crab and relax.

[tom roy]

Dose the Missouri run by Omaha and Council bluffs Iowa where I was born. Its the state line I think. I remember cat fishing on the little Sioux, I had chicken gizzards for bait I look behind and six foot buil snake was devouring gizzards store package and all I ran like the hell and got the pole later. Then those dam turtles talking bait instead of cat fish try to real one those 20 pounders in You gotta love the mid west. Farmers love them Bull Snakesl the eat rats and leave humans alone. but cats beware.We used to smoke dried corn silk.

[Chief Joseph]

[Schenk]

Wow...this isn't about idiots ruining it for you...you ruined it for them.

[NacMacFeegle]

The Biolite stoves seem like a great compromise,

It has the warmth and cheer of a campfire, and you can cook hot dogs over it, yet it produces almost no smoke!. It is as good for cooking as a butane stove, runs only on twigs, and as a bonus charges your electronics. It's even small enough to carry backpacking, which is great because then you don't have to worry about packing fuel and can have what is basically a small campfire even in areas that ban campfires! They also make a barbecue:

[Alpine Pedestrian]

+1 to what Wolffie and Schenk said.

[wheatie]

[tom roy]

If your sold by the green money makiig busisness go ahead and feel good.The planet is rotting around us the US does nothing contoled by oil. At least i dont fool my self by using massive lead batterieass. And the polutants to recycle them are unregulted. No sarcasam just facts and reality.

[contour5]