Friday, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:44
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I recognise that situation Nifty.
The 'Parks' concern is largely about preventing people from hacking into standing trees or even cutting fallen wood that they wish to retain as wildlife shelter.
To this end, they may ban importing firewood so that people cannot claim "Oh, I brought this into the park with me!" when actually they had felled it within the park. Yes, it disadvantages the conscientious visitor from bringing their own firewood.
What the park may sometimes then do is allow the import of 'milled' timber only, i.e. offcuts from a sawmill or building site which clearly is not natural tree wood.
In fact, in some parks I have visited, milled timber is the only wood provided in the park 'woodpile' that I referred to in my Reply above.
The legislative Regulations are fairly straightforward but individual parks often, even usually, adopt administration 'rules' of their own to control what they perceive as necessary. Accordingly, you may encounter tighter (or even more generous) rules being applied in individual parks, and fair enough if that's what it takes. This has been my experience and alluded to by a
ranger more than once. This is despite 'Dave Trees' refutation above.
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