I just finished watching a wilderness show where a man and wife spent almost a year living in the Idaho wilderness. They were trekking through a huge National Forest in which homesteading has been completely outlawed (except for a sprinkling of back-woods homes that were "grandfathered in" prior to the law taking affect). I was thinking that I would like to live in a place like that but will never have the opportunity because it's "against the law."
What do you think about the idea of allowing homesteading in such places as long as no roads, electricity, plumbing, shopping centers, gas stations, or any other reflections of "civilization" are allowed? What if a person just wants to live off of the land and take what he needs to survive without the luxuries of urban sprawl?
What's RIGHT with that or what's WRONG with that?
As far as I know you can live in National Forest land as long as you want.
Building a home in the middle of National Forest land will run you into some problems, so the answer is- you can go live there, but don't build a home.
And please don't start any forest fires, and don't leave your trash behind.