I used the Backpacker.com search engine and in fairness they do have info there on most everything that's been pointed out as lacking in that video.

That said, after doing that I found the site to be truly awful. They focus on backpacking as being some sort of extreme survivalist adventure, which for me it has never been, and they make some pretty big stretches in order to do that.

I get the despair and grief that results from the destruction going on there, but from what I've read and heard few of those fires have been started by backpackers. The last I heard the Valley fire may have started in a shed in someone's backyard. I haven't heard of any burning right now that were started by backpackers. There may well be, but I've not once heard of this being a leading cause.

Certainly one would be too many, but if they're not a leading cause than focusing on that won't help much. What really needs to be done is beginning an immediate focus on prevention and restoration.

Time to crank up a new "Conservation Core" and put people to work!