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- From: blanchad@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BLANCHARD DAVID OWEN)
- Subject: Re: USFS Backcountry Fees
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.175614.4634@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:56:14 GMT
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- In article <1ebq8hINNm63@morrow.stanford.edu> 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.
- >
-
- [Flame on]
-
- This amounts to nothing more than the American public subsidizing the
- timber industry. The industry is ALREADY heavily subsidized because
- the Forest Service sells timber at below cost.
-
- It's time for the timber industry to survive or dissappear based on
- their own abilities to compete. No more subsidies.
-
- [Flame off]
-
- David Blanchard
- dob@esg1.nssl.erl.gov
-
- Disclaimer: I speak for no one but myself.
-