DCR and Katrina, thanks for all of the great information! I particularly took notice of the last thing in your post DCR that if convicted under PC-314 that you must register as a sex offender. I sure wouldn't want to be in law enforcement records as a sex offender. The problem with a non designated area like DCHS, as I have found out is that agencies like the sheriffs, CPS and perhaps even a BLM enforcement officers could enter these areas and arrest a nude person just because they were nude and doing nothing else illegal. The fact that the Forest Service has thier policy that excepts nudity would not prevent this arrest or protect you if it were to happen to you. So if one of these agency personel or even a private citizen were to make a complaint, then you very definitly might find yourself arrested by these people. Now those of us who have frequented DCHS know that the history of that place has been that it has been left alone and you don't see people arrested for nudity. In my conversation with Brad today he said that if the Sheriffs dept or any other agencies started arbitrarily coming into the Forest Service area and start arresting people for public nudity, particularly at DCHS that the Forest Service would take real exception to this and would be talking to the agencies about something like that. To present, as Brad and I know, the history of the area shows that people going nude are not bothered unless there was some other activity of unlawfulness associated with the situation. In truth, it is possible for a problem concerning nudity, given the right circumstance, and all you have to be is naked. Thats what happened to me. As much as I enjoy being in nature unclothed its not worth even the smallest risk if the environment can't be completely safe from some kind of prosecution in relation to me being unclothed in front of my children.
