ok...so often i like to whittle at camp after a day of hiking...nice to get dry by a fire making a decoy or a nice stick...or heck just something to do in the rain under a tarp...

however i never really thought about the environment...so i guess this goes to my extreme conservation friends...

is my idea of making a walking stick from every state of the AT a bad idea? is taking the branch from its natural decompising spot an issue?

also what about all the shavings i leave behind? i'm not leaving anything that normally wouldn't be there just in a diffrent package....

i imagine my impact is small...but i also imagine that if everyone took a few berries from a bush by days end that bush would be bare....
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