I Don't Know Who Steven Greenhut Is...

But I know that he is not an honest columnist. Writing about a story in the Sacramento Bee about rising crime in California state parks, Greenhut says:

It refers to "grave-robbing" – or, more accurately, people who remove Indian artifacts, such as arrowheads, from a park.

From the article:

Grave-robbing at Tolowa Dunes State Park on the far North Coast, which left American Indian remains unearthed.

[snip] 

An extreme case occurred in April at the remote Tolowa Dunes park in Del Norte County. Grave robbers entered the Yontocket Indian Memorial Cemetery to dig up treasures such as pottery and arrowheads. A $2,000 reward has been offered.

"Or, more accurately, people who remove Indian artifacts, such as arrowheads, from a park."
Reading Greenhut, it is rather apparent that he has never spent much time outdoors. Only someone who has avoided nature could ridicule people who "want more 'boots on the ground' to catch average folks who might have a bonfire". Similarly Greenhut is outraged that "park rangers extinguish 'illegal campfires'" [scare quotes in original].
After all, it's not like, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, humans caused 85% of  wildland fires in California between 2001 and 2009, accounting for 70% of acres burned.