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- From: AS.MSW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marc Whitney)
- Newsgroups: rec.climbing
- Subject: USFS Backcountry Fees
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 14:04:01 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- I have just seen a news report on a proposal to charge user fees for
- backpacking and hiking use of the National Forests. My first
- response was negative. However, to say that the money collected
- would be used to replace logging revenues. The implication was that
- for every $1 collected from backpackers there would be $1 less in
- timber sales. If this is true I would be inclined to change my
- view.
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- Does anyone have more information on this proposal? If it would
- really reduce logging and new logging roads, I think a lot of people
- would be very interested.
-
- Marc Whitney
- as.msw@FORSYTHE.stanford.edu
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