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Fee-Demo: Brought to you by
The Walt Disney Company and REI
"We are proud to say the American Recreation Coalition and the
Recreation Roundtable - a related group of
recreation-industry CEO's - have invested heavily in staff and member
time in helping the federal agencies covered by the fee demonstration
program with project-level and national support and advice on sound
fee programs. We have arranged for top marketing and communications
executives from Disney, REI and other companies to work with
the Enterprise Forest fee team in the design and implementation of
that project; we have assisted more than a dozen additional Forest
Service fee sites with specific communications efforts, enabling them
to reach the general public and likely visitors with fee program
information prior to arrival. We have worked with National Park
Service staff in Washington to outline new and innovative approaches
on fees, some of which I'll address momentarily."
From speech to Congress, February 26, 1998
by Derrick Crandall, President, American Recreation Coalition
Click Here for full text of testimony.
"We are very pleased that the National Recreation Fee Demonstration Program, which is the direct result of our efforts,
will produce more than $150 million this year in new receipts for the
four agencies covered, including an estimated $20 million for the
Forest Service."
From letter to Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture dated 9/2/98
signed by:
Wally Smith, Chairman of REI,
Kym Murphy, Vice President, Walt Disney Company,
plus 14 other corporate executives from the
Recreation Roundtable.
The following is Congressional Testimony by Arthur Peterson, President of
Kampgrounds of America, Member of the American Recreation
Coalition and of ARC's Recreation Roundtable.
"Both KOA
and the Recreation Roundtable have a long-time interest in the
topic of recreation fees on public lands. ... I can assure
that our experience, and the experiences of companies ranging
from L.L. Bean to Disney, Coleman to REI, Fleetwood to OMC and
more, is that the American public expects good value in its
recreation choices, and will choose to pay more for clean, safe,
well operated facilities.
These
experiences led the Recreation Roundtable to support fair but higher fees
for recreation on federal lands beginning in the late 1980's. We
supported the fee demonstration initiative at its inception in 1995 and
have invested substantial energies working with the demonstration sites
of several agencies to make the program successful."
Important Announcement - REI Quits ARC's Recreation Roundtable click. |
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