{"id":77925,"date":"2025-08-18T04:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77925\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:52:09","slug":"ontario-man-fined-for-camping-too-long-on-crown-land-and-leaving-behind-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77925\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario man fined for camping too long on Crown land and leaving behind litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Natural Resources has fined a man $2,500 for illegally camping on Crown land throughout the summer and leaving behind garbage.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry says the man from North Bay camped for longer than the permitted 21-day period in Stewart Township, located in northeastern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Conservation officers also found garbage littered around the man\u2019s trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-day camping limit is in place on Crown land to give others the opportunity to camp in the same spot.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry says it also minimizes environmental damage.<\/p>\n<p>A ministry news release says the man\u2019s case was heard by a judge in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Natural Resources has fined a man $2,500 for illegally camping on Crown land throughout the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-77925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}