I would like to hear your ideas and views please

[Tami]

I want others ideas and views on a 4 part question. That contains 4 different areas of outdoors..

The first part we start here in camping..

I would like to hear your ideas and views please.. I hope all members will give their input on this..

Do you think it's fair to charge national park visitors a $10-$15 fee ?

Or should it be free, since we pay taxes that includes this ?

What would your view be on this?

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[thunderpout]

The money to run the parks has to come from somewhere...may as well charge the folks that use them....either that or start up a volunteer group to maintain them.....

[tripnchip]

Let me put it this way, I don't mind paying a users fee within reason but I also think that when these organizations  bring law suits against park syestems and forestery systems that if they lose the case they should have to pay both court cost bills. This would save a lot of our tax dollars and maybe user fees would not have tobe so high.

[Ryan]

I have no problem with the fee.  Our tax dollars can't cover everything.  If you don't like the fee then don't go.

[Faceman]

I dont mind a fee as long as it does not get out of hand. The money needs to come from somewhere. I dont want taxes to go up any higher. It is no different than a sports stadium. We pay taxes to pay for a new stadium and yet we still have to pay to go there.

[wildlifeminnesota]

Yes it is ok to have a small fee for camping 10-15 And is ok to have the fee 25. a year to go into park as long as they stay small but I fill like they will raise it becuse the cost of gas. If they didn't make $$ at it we would not have state prak.

[Lee Borgersen]

Let me put it this way, I don't mind paying a users fee within reason but I also think that when these organizations  bring law suits against park syestems and forestery systems that if they lose the case they should have to pay both court cost bills. This would save a lot of our tax dollars and maybe user fees would not have tobe so high.

Nice post Tripnchip

Why can't the extreme wacko environmental groups just let the U.S. Forrest Service do the job that they were trained for? No, they have to continue to tie the hands of the branch of the government that manages our outdoors. Frivolous law suites are continuing to drain valuable funds from the U.S. Forrest Service budget where they are badly needed.

Spending time and funds tied up in the court systems is a big drain on our government agencies. It's also a waste of funds need to monitor our natural recourses the way their meant to be.

SMG