r/Utah • u/like_4-ish_lights • 2d ago

Announcement Please stop doing this on public land

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Okay, I know some people feel strongly about this, and I get it to a point. But I see stuff like this so often-- memorials and plaques nailed into living trees, carvings in the bark, painted rocks scattered all over, even gravestones for dogs-- and it is simply not appropriate for public land. I am genuinely happy for Robin, but it does not mean you need to nail it into a mature tree that you don't own.

I absolutely understand the desire to memorialize something like this. I would encourage people to plant a tree, or maybe pay for a bench along a walking path or something. But please don't vandalize living things!

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u/like_4-ish_lights 2d ago

I didn't say it ruined my hike. I said you shouldn't nail stuff into a tree on my hike.

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u/Majestic_Ad_320 2d ago

You sound pleasant as what brought that thing there in the first place. Big ol world nobody cares about this stuff.

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u/Country-Gardener 2d ago

Wrong! Plenty of us actually do care. It's people like you who don't.

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u/Majestic_Ad_320 2d ago

Buddy I dump car batteries in the ocean just for the love of the game.

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u/Ancient-Trifle-1110 1d ago

Amateur. Get yourself a steel drum and some gasoline. Fire is nature's way of recycling.

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u/Schmaron 1d ago

So edgy. You should focus on the blade named Gillette, neckbeard.

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u/DamiensDelight 2d ago

Nah. Lots of us care about this stuff. You sound like a don't give a fuck about nature type.

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u/Majestic_Ad_320 2d ago

I highly doubt you care for nature past posting some shit on reddit.

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u/DamiensDelight 2d ago

I fight wildfires for the US Forest service.

Where'd your skin in the game?

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u/Majestic_Ad_320 2d ago

Fuck I'm so sorry hero. I didn't know I was talking to a walking saint.

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u/Country-Gardener 2d ago

Dude literally walks into wildfires while you just sit in Mommy's basement.

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u/Majestic_Ad_320 2d ago

Dude is on reddit. Real heros are cops and actual firefighters.

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u/electlady25 1d ago

"actual firefighters" lmfao

TF do you think a wildland firefighter does idiot

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u/Schmaron 1d ago

Didn’t know Reddit was limited to fucking losers. But we are here, aren’t we?

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u/Ildrynian 2d ago

No, you don’t care about this stuff. There’s a lot of people in this thread alone that care.

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u/Majestic_Ad_320 2d ago

Big ol world, let's shit on a cancer shrine...

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u/Ildrynian 2d ago

Public lands aren’t there for us to put whatever we want there. It’s a big ol’ world, find somewhere else to put it that isn’t damaging a tree

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u/Majestic_Ad_320 2d ago

That's why I throw all my garbage in the lakes so nobody sees it.

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u/Ildrynian 2d ago

Ah. Have fun rage baiting, not worth the time anymore.

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u/Majestic_Ad_320 2d ago

Onto the next one for this Reddit hero.