Sierra Club group, chapter and national policy information related to the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program (Fee Demo)

The following links will take you to articles that have appeared in Sierra Club publications, to presentations given by Sierra Club spokesperson and to policies of the Sierra Club.

The grassroots organization Wild Wilderness is unrelated to the national Sierra Club. However, Scott Silver (Wild Wilderness Executive Director) works closely with the Sierra Club on various recreation issues. He has served as the "Commercialization of the Wild" Issue Coordinator for the Oregon Chapter Conservation Committee and currently serves as Wilderness Advocate for the Juniper Group.

 

Sierra Club Conservation Policies - User Fees of Public Lands (The Official Sierra Club position on Fee Demo and Recreation User Fees.) Recreation User Fees on Public Lands (Sierra Club Fee-Demo resolution passed by RCCs in 1998) Carl Pope asks Congress to end Recreation Fee Demo (The Sierra Club's Executive Director calls program "socially and environmentally unsound." - May 2000) Sierra Club News Release (This news release was issued by the National Sierra Club on the day before the 2002 National Day of Action to End Forest Fees.) Carl Pope asks Congress to end Recreation Fee Demo (The Sierra Club's Executive Director calls program "socially and environmentally unsound." - May 2000) Foes Say Fie on Fee Demo   (Excellent review published 9/01 in the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club "Southern Sierran.)  Corporate Takeover of Nature - SF Bay Chapter web site (A very thorough article from the Sierra Club Yodeler - May 1999) Land of the Free - Or The Fee? (Action Alert from Sierra Club Action Resource The Planet - July/August 1999) Statement of Melanie L. Griffin Director, Land Protection Program (Written statement presented to US Senate on February 4, 1999) Fighting Forest Fees (Winter '99 - Postcard campaign addressed to Vice-President Al Gore) What's Wrong With Fee Demo (From: Words of the Wild, November 1998 - Newsletter of the Sierra Club's California/Nevada Regional Wilderness Committee) Forest Fees are First Step Toward Commercialized Future (The Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club has made terminating the Adventure Pass a priority item. ) The Corporate Takeover of Nature - From Ventana Chapter (Yet another article with this popular title: written by, and on the web site of, the Ventana Chapter. ) Angeles Chapter Supports National Day of Action (A resolution passed unanimously by the chapter on July 12, 1999. ) San Francisco Bay Chapter Supports National Day of Action (July 14, 1999 News Release. Clearly states the Chapter's position regarding fee-demo and points to problems with this program.) Eco-Contradictions (Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, responds to recreation challenge from free-market advocate Virginia Postrel.)