USFS Travel Management Bill

In the far West, the declined FS revenue from logging has also reduced allocations from congress for maintenance of roads and recreation. As roads deteriorate and become dangerous they become candidates for closure to avoid liability. In our ranger district, in the past ten years access to two main roads have be closed for that exact reason.

I believe the push to move federal lands to state or private ownership is to relieve the cost of supporting non-revenue generating functions of the government and allow the large resource extracting companies to fight it out with ill equipped smaller state government entities.