Leave a trace homebums, hobos and homeless close down campsites, recreational campers get blamed. Locusts move on to next area.
>Bureaucratic jargon like “sustainable recreation” might appear to have no immediate bearing on your next camping trip—until you arrive to find your favorite campground closed because it’s become a total pigsty.>Take some of the popular primitive campgrounds along the stretch of the Columbia River east of Portland near The Dalles and John Day dams, where summer convoys of leave-no-trace-challenged RVers and car campers are long accustomed to free nights of boondocking on the banks.>This year, riverside campers are finding at least two of their favored overnight spots have been turned into day-use only areas—no camping permitted—for the foreseeable future. Others have had increased use restrictions imposed.https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2021/06/excessive-trash-illegal-dumping-force-oregon-campground-closures.html 