I somehow missed this new offering from the DEC, but here’s the short version:
Effective on October 14, 2009, all open burning is prohibited in New York with several exceptions including the following:
- Campfires less than 3 feet in height and 4 feet in length, width or diameter are allowed.
- Small cooking fires are allowed.
- Fires cannot be left unattended and must be fully extinguished.
- Only charcoal or clean, dry, untreated or unpainted wood can be burned.
- Ceremonial or celebratory bonfires are allowed.
So I have to include a tape measure in the camping equipment, but I’m really relieved I can still have my ceremonial bonfires. I wonder if that includes effigies?
Unbelievable.
I’m all for effigies.
Whew. We’re gonna be busy making effigies.
Now that you point it out, Alice, who would be the first effigy? or the first dozen? Decisions, decisions.
Call me a foolish optimist. Call me Pollyanna, but I don’t think this foolishness is going to go on much longer.
Mind you, what I think may be coming might well be even worse — maybe much worse. Still, I don’t think the Great Hectoring Nanny has too much longer to be in business.
That sounds very ominous, Prophet Jim. I wish I could say I disagreed with you, but I can’t.