Sad state of national parks and public lands.
On our way to Lassen Volcanic National Park. On a national forest rest stop and vista point, wifey went to the rest room. But it was posted "Closed due to lack of funding." And down on these...
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Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
On our way to Lassen Volcanic National Park.
On a national forest rest stop and vista point, wifey went to the rest room.
But it was posted "Closed due to lack of funding."
And down on these national forest roads are trucks barreling down with full loads of logged timbers on the national forest.
It's not hard to do the math that one of those trucks can. pay for the maintenance of that entire rest stop and the rest rooms.
Bigly sad!
Actually if you did the math you'd be even sadder. Btwn the cost of road building and the length of hauls to the mills that wood is actually worthless as a revenue producing resource for the American public. Ggl below cost timber sales.
The poster above has it right; the revunue generated from multiple use fees like timber sales, grazing, campground fees, firewood permits, etc goes to the general fund and then is appropriated (or not) back to the local NF. Firefighting sucks up a huge portion of the money these days and even funds dedicated to other NF activities gets taken to fight fires as well. It's really sad, imho, as there is obiviosly an overwhelming desire to get out and enjoy our beautiful country before it all goes up in smoke.
