Changes to National Park fees

toedtoes wrote:
I have bad knees. A helicopter tour is the only way I can see many of the remote areas of the national parks. I guess I'll just be one less visitor so you can have the park to yourself?

How is my desire to see the wonders of our national parks any less important than yours? Why should your way take precedence over another's?

It's not "my way" nor is it "have park to myself", it's simply stating facts. Crowds cause damage to our parks. That's a fact. Concessions bring crowds with the ads and mechanical service vehicles. That's a fact. Crowds require support services that overload budget and maintenance costs. That's a fact. Not opinions.

And, I also mentioned accommodating disabled access as well, and as a different situation than healthy folks that can walk.

As a photographer yourself, you understand and reminisce with the beauty you capture in your images. How do you feel when you try to photograph a wilderness scene, and you get a helicopter in it? Or, so many people crowding a deer or a bear or an elk near the road and you can't even punch the shutter button without a ten minute wait so you don't get a visitor in the frame, if you can even capture it before it runs off?

The facts speak for themselves. If we continue to develop and add concessionaires and features to the parks, we will damage the wilderness areas beyond repair. That's a fact, not an opinion.