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THE FOREST SERVICE  ADVENTURE PASS   TRAIL FEE    PROGRAM

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• Access to public lands is deliberately being manipulated for the benefit of campground associations, private concessionaires, manufacturers and users of motorized sports vehicles, and giant tourist and recreation corporations.

• Congressional budgetary cuts are intentionally creating a maintenance crisis for federally managed recreation lands and facilities.

• The rescue of a badly decayed system of National Parks and recreational lands, through private corporate investment, is the planned outcome of this strategy.

• This fee program was developed by a collaboration of anti- environmental 'wise-use' leaders and sympathetic legislators. Although maintenance funds are badly needed, this is NOT the fair, equitable, or correct way to raise them!

• A highly influential business consortium called American Recreation Coalition (ARC) is PAYING to implement this trail fee program on your Public Lands and they are counting on enormous returns for their investment.

• ARC's ultimate objective is to acquire for its corporate benefactors, 'rights' to develop and operate recreational facilities upon these Public Lands.

• This trail fee program is only a first step. More regressive, costly, and pro-motorized-use programs will follow this demonstration program.

Future enjoyment of, and access to, all federal recreational lands will be decided by legislation coming up in the summer of 2004. Passage of new laws will be extremely dependent upon how the public responds to this 'trial balloon' program. Now is the time to complain. Because if you don't, these laws will Motorize, Commercialize, and Privatize America's remaining unspoiled mountains, lakes and trails . . . forevermore.

IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT:
In late November of 2004, the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program (Fee-Demo) was replaced with a more aggressive, expanded, and generally worse program known as the "Recreation Access Tax" [ RAT ].   Fee-Demo is dead, though for now, the RAT lives on.

 

 

Call or write the U.S. Forest Service, your Congressmen, President George Bush or whomever you think might help. Tell them why you object to this "Demonstration Fee Program." Display the "No Trail Fee" sticker (illustrated above) on your car windshield. Sign the attached petition from the Washington state organization "Free Our Forests," and gather additional signatures. And, if you dare, engage in a little civil disobedience. Go hiking without a permit!