Is It Time to Give Up the Campfire?

There are a lot of things we don’t do anymore. We don’t smoke in restaurants or look up things in the Yellow Pages, call people collect or make physical mixtapes. And one summer tradition seems headed for that list of future Buzzfeed nostalgia listicles: lighting a campfire when you go camping.

On July 10, Washington’s Department of Natural Resources announced a burn ban on all the lands it manages, including campfires. By mid-July, the national forests in Washington started instituting limits. Haven’t had a summer s’more yet? You may have missed your chance.

Fire bans are nothing new; as far back as the 1800s, the national parks have tried to

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