Comments on: Fees Keeping People Off Their Land
By Cody Trenton on 12-03-08
Wild Bill-Your article suggests that fees are the causal factor in visitation decrease to NP’s and NF’s without any real science supporting that statement. Apparently it just seems to easily roll off the tongue. You can currently purchase a National Parks Pass for $80.00 (I believe). That seems farily reasonable for an entire year of recreation. No one likes fees (or increased fees), but certainly these are a necessary subsidy for bathrooms, boatramps, roads, etc. Take a look at the Hungry Horse Reservoir. They charge zero fees for entry (except certain campgrounds and boat launches). Yet the area is overrun with garbage, poor roads, disgusting bathrooms, boat launches in need of repair, etc. I think there is a need for certain fees in order to facilitate the services people expect on public lands.
By Frank on 12-03-08
It is totally unacceptable that any government owns any land at all, let alone chare its citizens to walk in the USA. NO PUBLIC LAND
By Bill Schneider on 12-03-08
Cody—I didn’t say fees are the “causal factor.” Instead, I said recreation fees have “contributed to a similar, if not steeper, decline in the public use of public forests”. Even the FS agrees, for the fist time, that fees contribute to the decline in visitor use, and everybody knows this is only one of many factors, but more important than most people think, in my opinion….Bill.
By Bobby Gee on 12-03-08
Glacier National Park has a ‘back door’ always open at no charge. More and more visitors are becoming aware of the unmanned Camas Entrance with each passing year. While visitors using this entrance are on the honor system and can be fined for not paying entrance fees, it’s doubtful there are many paying customers.
By Fubar on 12-03-08
hhhhhmmmmm, 13% decline in forest visitors. Decline in FS employees 0%.
By rate relief on 12-03-08
figuring Barry for rate relief is like figuring the same from your HMO.
By FeeBee on 12-04-08
Interesting article – visitation is down 13% and the FS can’t figure it out. It’s pretty simple – they have closed the roads/trails, outlawed off road motorized recreation, closed snowmobiling areas and reduced opportunities for dispersed camping… Basically, they have criminalized many of the uses that real forest visitors enjoyed for years. The fees may play a small role, but the eco-mantra “if you close if they (the eco-tourist) will come” is busted…
By IT'SCALLEDTYRANNY on 12-04-08
The United Nations biospheres projects are incrementally shutting down access to park lands. Some would say the reason being that our recreational lands are no longer under America’s jurisdiction but rather United Nations control. Stealth move by the criminal politicians that take their bribe money and perks..sell out the country to foreign interests. One world government is being finalized..and many of you continue to deny the reality. “Amercia, Destroyed by Design” by Alex Jones warned us 15 years ago.
By J. RAR on 12-05-08
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
By PSB on 12-06-08
No one wants filibustering or bogarting of the comments. Long winded comments are not read.
By Karl on 12-06-08
Are you the moossad PSB? Take a hike…and grab a copy of Evelyn Wood speed reading you dirty spike.
By Karl the douchbag on 12-07-08
you dirty spike? is this secret nazi code for KIKE???
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