“It is a bummer that the wilderness isn’t quite as remote and wild as someone might think, but when you are out there, you certainly can be seen by other hikers, forest rangers, people with binoculars.”
That’s quite a fallacy you got going on there, and a load of bovine patties too.
Why do you assume forest rangers have the right in the first place to monitor anyone? What you’re saying concerning the marijuana crops are bogus. And if you believe that its about drug cultivation, I have beach front property in Death Valley that I’d love to sell to you.
We don’t need the Green Gestapo. We need to dismantle every single government run agency.
The Forest Service is set up to manage the timber as a federal asset and the rangers are like the security guards. Security guards use cameras.
A good question would be why do we need to manage timber as a federal asset? Especially when some of the “national forests” where I live (Southern California) have no harvest-able timber, just bushes and an occasional tree.