rocmoc wrote:
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Deletes the prohibitions currently imposed on the Forest Service and BLM from charging fees for parking, picnicking along roads or trailsides, general access, dispersed areas with low or no investment, driving through, walking through, boating through, horseback riding through, or hiking through Federal recreational lands and waters without using facilities and services, camping at undeveloped sites that do not provide minimum facilities, and use of overlooks or scenic pullouts. HR 5204 eliminates those prohibitions and replaces them with a single prohibition on fees “For any site, area, or activity, except as specifically authorized under this section.” Since “this section” authorizes fees for anything, that prohibition is meaningless.
I think this bothers me most. Imagine having to pay a fee just to drive through NFS or BLM lands! Pay a fee to hike. Pay a fee to boondock in the middle of nowhere.
