Change can be hard, especially when people have done things a certain way for decades or generations. As activity on Ashley National Forest increases, forest officials have had to focus on enforcing rules to keep things manageable, even though it may change the way locals have done things for many years. One example of this is the increased enforcement of dispersed camping rules, specifically cracking down on folks parking their campers in their favorite spots and leaving them there for long periods of time. This week the forest has a new reminder upsetting some and that is that tree stands left by hunters in the forest on a permanent basis are being removed. The Ashley National Forest shared that they have received multiple reports of tree stands left on the Forest and that these stands are considered abandoned property and will be removed beginning in July. “Permanent tree stands that have been built on site are not authorized and will be removed,” shares the announcement. “Tree stands have been identified across the Forest and in the High Uintas Wilderness area. We are giving hunters the opportunity to remove tree stands from the Forest. If your stand has been removed, please be able to clearly identify it through markings on the stand and contact the Ashley National Forest to see if we have it.”
