There are laws about unattended open fires and trash removal when camping on federal lands. He was breaking those laws. There’s other rules about how long you can camp in the same place, but in a lot of areas they usually look the other way as long as you are living in a way that doesn’t damage the area. He was also on National Forest park land, which is much stricter about residency than BLM land is.
He was discovered!
Yes, but the word caught implies he was doing something illegal
There are laws about unattended open fires and trash removal when camping on federal lands. He was breaking those laws. There’s other rules about how long you can camp in the same place, but in a lot of areas they usually look the other way as long as you are living in a way that doesn’t damage the area. He was also on National Forest park land, which is much stricter about residency than BLM land is.
He was