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- From: allen%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Allen Sanderson)
- Subject: Re: USFS Backcountry Fees
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:50:56 MST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.185056.6527@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- AS.MSW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marc Whitney) writes:
- >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.
-
- This would be great. However, I believe that currently all money
- generated from logging sales goes into the general fund and not back
- to the Forest Service. This means that money from timber sales pays
- for paving our national highways, conversely gasoline taxes goes
- towards our national parks. So, if they charge a user fee were the
- majority of the money goes back into the forests then great. If this
- is not the case then this proposal says "If the damn evironmentalists
- want the logging to stop then they can make up the lost revenue with
- their own money".
-
- I am all for user fees that go back into improving the forests but
- I'll be damned if I want to pay for restoring the forests cut by the
- timber industry. So this proposal is a damned if you do and damned if
- you don't. Either way were going to pay, in dollars or in lost trees.
-
- I guess I'll pay to hike and see a tree.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Allen R. Sanderson
-
- Salt Lake City, Oootah
-
-
- "Great spirits have always encounter violent opposition from
- mediocre minds."
- - Albert Einstein
-