Grad students update:

Last I talked to them in early December they said they were calling it early, leaving their stuff in southern Oregon, and going to like Wisconsin or something for family holidays

Their tent remained in place but I didn’t hear any sign of them after the 15th at most, come the new year I realized they just abandoned their stuff in place

I saw cop lights at one point around the 7th or so and padded out to explain, when I noticed what they must have been summoned for, a new second tent

Later that night I encountered the two bros belonging to the tent and warned them. The next day was very windy and they apparently left it unstaked or -ballasted and it blew away

A few days later the city campsite cleanup guys came, looked at it, collapsed the tent with a rock, and left it and all the stuff (mostly like dirty plastic bottles and clothes, I took a knit blanket for the bed of my truck)

As of yesterday it’s all disappeared and there’s just a big bare dirt spot I should probably reseed