Forest fires destroy thousand of acres of land in this country every year. Careless campers who do not properly extinguish their campfires cause many of the forest fires. Unless something is done to cut down on the number of campers in this nation' s forests, we will face a day when there will be no forests remaining in this country. The argument depends on the assumption that ['that forest will not regenerate after forest fires', "forests are vital to this nation's environmental survival", 'that national parks are not beneficial to this nation', 'there are no other causes of forest fires']