Re: building a campfire - sometimes it's just not right

I will take a dip in this pool of turbid water.

I love a nice campfire... but there is a time and a place for everything. If I am in the backcountry I never, never build a fire...unless there is an existing fire ring and park regulations allow.

Just common sense here folks; Rules and best practices are not arbitrarily arrived at. People have actually thought this stuff through and like it or not, there is a time and a place for everything, including campfires.

Just because your personal philosophy goes against (this is directed at both those for, and those against fire) what is permitted or not permitted, you should not feel obligated to force it on others. i.e. "I like fire so I will build one even if I have to make a new fire ring in this protected national forest", or "You should never ever build a fire even in an area where campfires are allowed and existing rings are present… because it goes against the principals of LNT."

This is quite a controversial topic; can't we all just get along?