avoidcrowds wrote:
I think Dan's idea is fine. I would be willing to pay $75/yr for a Fed pass. I already purchase a Colorado State Parks pass, so I can enter all those parks free - just pay the nightly fee for camping.
IMHO, $75 wouldn't be anywhere near enough to prevent abusers from squatting on public lands for weeks/months at a time while trashing it up. The abuser types would probably come up with $75 so as to be able to live that cheaply in RVs on public lands while still doing as they please out there.
And again, are there even enough public land workers to police the purchasing of permits to insure that the folks out there on our lands are holders of permits?
Usually all permits wind up doing is extract more money from honest/responsible folks so as to continue offering something to all folks. Forcing certain folks to be responsible has been an on going battle for millenniums, with the responsible folks footing the bill for the battle.
