[pct-l] why close the burn areas?

[Len Glassner]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Junaid Dawud <jdawud at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>My biggest concern was falling trees, not rangers
> (since one had basically said that if he was me, he'd go through).

This is the the part that bothers me.  The skepticism about closure
reasons combined with lots of anecdotes about 'flexible' enforcement
seems to lead to widespread contempt for closures.  Someday some
random hiker will get caught hiking through a closure and get hit with
a big fine, just because the ranger was having a bad day, or whatever.
 That will be majorly unfair, but how can anyone dispute that what
they were doing was illegal?  Either a place is closed, and anyone
caught entering gets fined, or don't close.