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Originally Posted by blue_bullet
She picked up some recently pruned tree branches and he [asked] if we brought the firewood or collected it here (trick question). He informed us that in the front country campgrounds you cannot pickup wood on the ground to burn. Only in back country campgrounds is that allowed. I learned something. It must be an unwritten rule.
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It's not unwritten, but it may be a request or guideline rather than a rule:
From
Visiting Parks - BC Parks - Province of British Columbia
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Please don’t gather firewood from the area around your campsite or elsewhere in the park. Dead wood is an important habitat element for many plants and animals; it adds organic matter to the soil.
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Gathering prunings seems reasonable to me (and different from either cutting it yourself, or gathering deadfall), but my guess is that many people - although of course not anyone in this forum - will cut wood and then claim "it was already cut and lying on the ground".