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- From: AS.MSW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marc Whitney)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: USFS Backcountry Fees
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 11:12:29 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- In article <24066@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>,
- tucker@shiva.edsg.hac.com (George Tucker) writes:
- >>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.
- >>
- >Chuckle.
- >If that were the purpose they could simply double the timber fees,
- >especially since they sell timber for much less than the damage caused
- >by logging. Sounds like a timber industry ploy to reduce their fees.
- >
- Actually, the group that came up with the proposal was neither FS or
- industry. I can't recall the name, but I believe it was
- independent. The problem with raiseing the logging fees is (if I
- understand correctly) that it is a sort of auction with procedures
- derived from statute. If you don't like it, write your Senator and
- or Congressperson. [Editorial: we often bitch at executive
- agencies for carrying out policies over which they have no control.
- They are just doing what Congress requires them to do. This
- doesn't keep Congress from holding "investigations" on the bad
- results.]
-