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Originally Posted by sourdough

Found this thread a little late looks like.

Here's the mandate;

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...-mask-wearing/

You might need to copy/paste. Lots of verbage. It, and the presentations for it, are conflicting. The intent is to stop the spread by encouraging social distancing and mask usage when around others. Wearing a mask in a forest does not fit that....but that is not what the directive says either.

I'm in a national recreation area every single day - I will not be wearing a mask. Me, DW nor puppy cannot get/give covid to the long leaf pines, oaks or cypress trees nor to the few humans we see at 75-100yds. And since I know several of the federal game/fish and park folks, I'm 100% positive not anyone is going to say a word to us. Now, in a building with other folks in a city? I'll have a mask on and social distance with or without a mandate.

That document is typical government talk and as clear as mud.
My ASSUMPTION would be when in buildings and in areas with close proximity to others a mask would be required, and not so in open areas away from others.