Articel below, and the cited website, gives details on how business groups have long range plans to turn a profit on our national park system.
Many of the people living the closest to national parks are the least able to pay for access...
Excerpt from website:
"Trail fees now being charged by the USFS are part of a national program being foisted upon the public through the co-operative efforts of Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-AK) and the American Recreation Coalition. Murkowski is the anti-environmental Senator from Alaska leading a Congressional effort to privatize our public lands. ARC is the wise-use, business consortium paying to implement the trail fee program. ARC
Original: US Forest Service Fee Protest