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- Fact Sheet - Recreation Fee Demonstration Program
(Just the basic facts. Unbiased without analysis.)
- Fee-Demo and Beyond
(An account of how the user-fee paradigm came to our forests and an
explanation of where this agedna is now headed. As published in the
George Wright Forum, Summer 2005.)
- A very personal expression of why I oppose
fee demo
(No facts what-so-ever. Just my straight from
the heart expression of how fee demo has impacted my life.)
- The Commodification of Nature
(An up to date account of the whos, hows, whys and wheres of fee demo.)
- National Park Privatization - An
Open Letter to Bruce Babbitt
(Bruce Babbitt mistakenly suggests that outsourcing of federal jobs
is the biggest privatization threat facing America's National Parks.
Here's the rest of the story.)
- Forest Fees Unpopular Across the Country
(Testimony by Wild Wilderness before a Hearing of the
Government Reform and Oversight House Subcommittee on July 9, 1998.)
- The New Forest Service Paradigm: Trees by the Board
Foot, or by the Hour
(A concise editorial about the changing direction of the US Forest
Service.)
- The Future of Public Lands Management: Industrial
Strength Recreation
(Latest research polls show Americans want 'Brand Name' recreation.
So that's what the USFS is planning for its customers.)
- Our Public Lands: Their Working Capital
(In just 800 words learn the real issues associated with recreation fees.)
- American Wilderness Experience - Disney Style [900 words]
(Who would sacrifice the real value of Wilderness to collect the price of a Big Mac and fries?)
- Nature: Now Available in Designer Colors
(Lists the working tenets now being used by federal land managers
and gives "on-the-ground" examples of how these are being applied.)
- What Would Thoreau Say ? [675 words]
(A good general purpose overview of the issue. Written March 2001.)
- What Would Thoreau Say ? -- (Short Version) [443 words]
(Same as above edited into a shorter version.)
- Federal Land Management: New and Improved, and Worse than Ever
(Explains the shifting direction of federal land management policy and implores the environmental community to take note.)
- Why You Should Boycott the New National Recreation
Fee Demonstration Program
(There are many reasons to boycott this program. Money, however, is
nowhere near the top of the list!)
- The Corporate Takeover of Nature
(Imagine what America would be like if all public "amenities" were
managed through public/private ventures.)
- They're Taking the People's Treasure
(The management control or our public lands are being turned over
to private entities, yet the Forest Service Chief denies this is
happening.)
- The Forest Service Will Never be More Defenseless
(The success of Fee-Demo is absolutely critical to the long term
survival of the Forest Service.)
- Activists Boycott REI [1000 words]
(If we can remove the profit motive from public land management,
we stand some chance of protecting our wild lands. )
- 'Industrial Recreation,' 'Tourism,' and 'Rural Development'
(A very short essay that asks: "Do you want it?")
- Recreation Fee Demonstration Program:
A Critique [1100 words]
(A rock-solid no-frills analysis of the issue.)
- Sample Editorial
(Here's as much of the story as can be told in 250 words. Please
consider sending a letter such as this to your local newspaper)
- Sample Fee Demo Letters Written by Others
(Here are dozens of sample letters written by a wide variety of
people, expressing a broad range of reasons why Americans oppose this program.)
- Is Relevance Irrelevant? [1100 words]
(We question one of the tactics being used to influence
public opinion on land management issues.)
- Senator Frank Murkowski Earns His 'Great Outdoors Award'
(A tongue-in-cheek Congratulation to a Great Outdoorsman.)
- A Dozen Protest Slogans
(Wild Wilderness would like your feedback.)
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the Word 'Public' and Insert 'Corporate' Into the Phrase 'Public
Lands'
(Educator and liberal columnist John Borowski explains who,
exactly, are the interest group commodifying wildness and why you
should refuse to pay their new Recreation Access Tax.)"
- Park Wars
(Long-time political writer Jon Margolis takes on the pay-to-play
issue writing for The American
Prospect. In what many regard the best article ever written on
this subject, Margolis, calls this "the battle for the future of
America's parkland (and soul)."
- Fee-Demo and the Economic Taliban
(An explanation of how fee-demo has become one of the greatest
threats to public lands written by Richard W. Behan, author of Plundered Promise:
Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal
Lands.)
- Fee-Demo is a Trojan Horse
(ParkWatch Supervisor Gene Messick thoughtfully explains the "scam" commonly known as Fee-Demo)
- Paying Twice to Play Less:
Our Great American Freedom Lost
(A feature article published at the time Congress was in the process of repealing Fee-Demo and
replacing it with the Recreation Access Tax.)
- Foes Say Fie on Fee Demo
(Excellent review published 9/01 in the Angeles Chapter of the
Sierra Club "Southern Sierran.)
- Why the Fee Demonstration Program Must End
(Analysis of General Accounting Office reports concludes that
Fee-Demo should end.)
- Ah, Wilderness ... at a Price [Excellent]
(Written as a gradate school research project, this paper give an
excellent overview of the pay-to-play issue.)
- Fact Sheet from American Lands Alliance [Microsoft Word Format]
(Several pages of concise, and very useful, material explaining the Fee-Demo issue.)
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From the Chattooga Quarterly;
Chattooga River Watershed Coalition,
POB 2006, Clayton, GA 30525
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Leads for ExplorationThe following are incomplete, but highly suggestive, stories. Readers
are invited to use these leads as sources for further investigation. They
should not be published or distributed without express permission from
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- Recreation Data: Can You Believe Them? Or Are We Being
Conned?
(Federal land-management agencies are using data researched by a firm
of questionable integrity, and paid for by large corporate recreation interest
groups.)
- U.S. Forest Service Chief Sees Managing Recreation
the Way Companies Use "Brand-Names"
(Having failed at the "Brand-Name" approach while CEO of Times Mirror,
former Recreation Rountable Chairman Pandolfi, tries his brand of management
on our public-lands.)
- Let's Tie It All Together
(The interconnections between American Recreation Coalition, the Recreation
Roundtable, Senator Frank Murkowski, US Forest Service Chief of Staff,
Francis Pandolfi, and Roper Starch Worldwide, are all tied together in
one neat package.)
- The ARC - Global Warming Connection
(While most Americans believe we must address the issue of global
warming, the American Recreation Coalition is actively opposing controls
on green-house gas emissions. In fact, ARC is a major player in the wise-use
movement's effort to protect the rights of corporations to pollute.) |
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