Sure thing, if you can afford cutting some plants and disturbing the forest's floor. In Siberian taiga I've been making fantastic lean-tos and beds of fresh fir and cedar branches, but for a weekend camping in CA Sierra I'm feeling guilty just for gathering a fallen wood.
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