come and join the fun as we demonstrate at disneyland
People required to buy passes to visit
public lands
By SCOTT MORRELL
Heads up folks! We are losing a basic civil
liberty. We
are no longer free to walk on our public lands
without
purchasing a federal permit. This freedom has
been
stripped away by the Recreation Fee
Demonstration
Program (Fee Demo). This unpopular
"temporary"
program requires citizens to buy a Northwest
Forest
Pass, costing per day or per year to
walk on
most National Forest trails in the Northwest. If
you don't
buy the permit, you will be ticketed. Ignoring the
ticket
nets a fine.
Fees are reasonable for improved sites such
as
campgrounds, snow parks, and boat ramps.
Fee
Demo goes too far. It imposes fees to access
vast
tracts of undeveloped nature