First in The Independent: Mark Aaron Gatz, 65, is facing prison time in what one U.S. Forest Service officer described as ‘possibly one of the worst residential cases he has seen’
There are laws about unattended open fires and trash removal when camping on federal lands. He was breaking those laws. There’s other rules about how long you can camp in the same place, but in a lot of areas they usually look the other way as long as you are living in a way that doesn’t damage the area. He was also on National Forest park land, which is much stricter about residency than BLM land is.
Yes, but the word caught implies he was doing something illegal
There are laws about unattended open fires and trash removal when camping on federal lands. He was breaking those laws. There’s other rules about how long you can camp in the same place, but in a lot of areas they usually look the other way as long as you are living in a way that doesn’t damage the area. He was also on National Forest park land, which is much stricter about residency than BLM land is.
He was