Knowing this may be a touchy subject after the Basswood escapades (what, two(?) years ago now)---

I'm not up on MN or BW specific gun rules but as I understand it, discharging firearms is perfectly legal in the BW with certain distance and common sense restrictions. Is there a campfire size limit anyone knows of?

I agree people build scary large fires far too often and hearing lots o' gunfire wouldn't thrill me either so I don't blame you one bit for being POed about it but are either of these two things actually illegal? I'm wondering what you wanted/expected the Forest Service to do?

You could have paddled over the next morning and asked what dumb thing happened that made their fire so big last night... Oh and BTW...

From the view of my comfy chair they needed a talking to for sure. Maybe they just had no clue in which case you could have enlightened them a lot easier yourself.

That wilderness idea cuts both ways sometimes don't it?