How to Return Your Campsite to its Original State

Video Transcript

" Hi, this is Bruce Lessels from Zoar Outdoor on behalf of expertvillage.com, talking about low impact camping methods. So even when you make a major effort to have as low impact as you can when you’re camping, you’re still going to have some impact on the ground and on the area where you are and there are a couple of ways to return it to more or less its original state. Of course you’re going to take out everything you bring in, so any food waste, any of those things you’re going to take out but you can still tell that this area has been walked on and camped on and someone spent the night here. So one way to start to bring this area back is if you brushed away some nettles and leaves and things you can kind of brush those back into the hollows. Try to restore some of that ground cover back the way it was and if you moved logs, if you used logs to sit on around the campfire, if you used them to sit on as camp stools, try to move those back to where you found them or put them back out in the woods so they’re not in an obvious pattern that you’ve created. Basically try to minimize the impacts of it, the campsite looks and is the way as much the way you found as possible when you’re done."