Cop this :!: - from the EPA website re Fraser Island but indicates general EPA policy.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Firewood
Visitors are encouraged to bring and use their own fuel or gas camping stoves to help Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) in its attempts to reduce the high numbers of burn injuries related to open campfires. The policy on open campfires also aims to reduce the risk of wildfires caused by campfires and helps create a clean-air camping experience on Fraser Island.
QPWS will:
prohibit open campfires except in provided fire rings from 1 February 2005.
cease providing firewood to Fraser Island from 31 October 2004
QPWS provides communal gas barbecues at:
Central Station day use area,
Waddy Point day use area,
Dundubara day use area and campground
QPWS provides communal fire rings at:
Waddy Point beachfront campground
Waddy Point campground
Dundubara campground
Campers who want a campfire in the communal fire rings provided, must bring their own firewood. However, it must be untreated, milled timber (e.g. mill off-cuts), not bush timber, as this reduces the risk of introducing foreign pathogens and other pests into the park. Visitors are reminded that all flora in protected areas, including dead trees or fallen limbs, is protected by law and therefore cannot be cut or collected. [/b][/quote]
The first paragraph mentions "The policy on open campfires also aims to reduce the risk of wildfires caused by campfires"
:roll: What about all the fallen timber that you aren't allowed to 'harvest / use :?: I reckon that's a bigger fire risk.
it also says: "and helps create a clean-air camping experience on Fraser Island". (a not so well hidden agenda or excuse :?: )
and milled timber only... what a tug :!: :roll: They reckon its to stop diseases being introduced BUT the ranger on the island mentioned to us that it is so they can tell if people have been ripping timber out of the bush, rather than bringing their own.