Dogs actually do little to deter bears, they can in fact make bears more aggressive.

Last time I went to Bagby I got bit by somebody's poor panicked dog that was running around loose.

Gee...no glasses on an extremely nearsighted naked girl hoisting a bucket of cold water, and bit in the leg by a black dog I didn't even SEE until it chomped me...what fun!


KEEP DOGS AT HOME WHERE THEY"RE HAPPY AND SAFE!

I have helped fight grass fires in the east bay hills, and once put out a smoldering mulched-out tree above the tree-line near Forrester Pass on the JMT. Campfires are a responsibility that I take seriously. There are times when having a campfire is a good idea and other times when it is a bad idea. I generally do not have a campfire unless there's too much fuel around, and it would be better to have it go up a little at a time, rather than in an inferno.

Global warming is still being debated, and there doesn't seem to be any one problem (let alone one solution). The eruption of Mount St. Helens did more to harm the environment than two generations of campers ever did, even with the occasional fire that gets loose. Prohibiting campfires at Sierra Hot Springs has virtually nothing to do with my survival. I visited Bear Valley C.G. after it burned down - it was useless until it was rebuilt - but other than making me camp elsewhere (we moved over the pass and discovered Bassett's Station), I wasn't affected. Driving out from Bear Valley C.G. that trip was the first time I had ever encountered Sierra Hot Springs - I went right past the end of the driveway as I headed into Sierraville.

"the earth is suffering" may feel right, but this sort of expression is referred to in literature as "The Pathetic Fallacy", and is in fact a misrepresentation. The Earth has no capacity to suffer, regardless of whether you want it to. Your claim or implication that campfires harm the Earth is laughable; campfires are insignificant compared to other damaging forces that exist. Over-fishing of the oceans is a much more serious problem, one that threatens the world’s food supply.

I don't understand why you mentioned watching people have sex; that was something outside of my complaint. I would like to point out to you that the prohibition was not conditional, it was absolute. The prohibition did not say "Do not have sex in the hot spring if somebody is watching". Including this aspect seems peculiar to me, but that is probably due to my lack of exposure to exhibitionistic/voyeuristic sexual practices. I expect people to have sex in relative privacy - and the springs offer that on occasion. I dare say that most people that would like to have sex in a hot spring probably don't want you to watch - so they'll wait until you leave or they will forego it and find somewhere else.