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Part of an attempt to curb unmanaged recreation on national forest land— including the use of motorized vehicles— the new travel management rule was described in a scoping letter published last month.

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Feed grounds are a vital part of the state’s elk management and brucellosis strategy and will be a part of that strategy for the foreseeable future, Gov. Dave Freudenthal said Monday during a speech in Jackson.

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However, he indicated the camp was not built with logs. It was erected, he suggested, with materials brought to the site with an ATV.

He said the Glastenbury camp actually was discovered by a Vermont game warden about two years ago, but in the past two years, no one has been seen at the camp. There is no information at the camp that would give a clue to who built it, he said.

Most fires are caused by clueless campers who leave active fires behind. Unbelievable.

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Despite tinderbox conditions, however, some campers in the Lewis and Clark National Forest have left behind smoldering campfires.

“It’s unbelievable that people would build a fire and then walk away from it,” said fire information officer Jane Weber.

“But we’ve found about a dozen unattended campfires,” Weber said

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“We’re pretty much at record levels for whatever you want to measure,” Kirby said. “It’s hot, it’s dry and it doesn’t look like it’s changing.”

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Hikers in the White Mountain National Forest may notice that more downed trees lie across their path this season or that washouts on the trails take longer to be repaired. The Forest Service budget was cut significantly, and the forest staff hired less than one-third of the usual seasonal employees, most of whom are part of trail crews.