tomman58 wrote:
Gee, I think you are on the fringe............... Who cleans up after a group of pigs? Who fixes the plumbing, hot water (where available) does the roads trails and goes to find the lost? Who fights the fires? Who mans the headquarters, the info centers. who studies the wildlife? Who takes care of them in hard times? Who cuts trees and such after the storms................................... it goes on and on and they are under staffed!
I can't tell if this is just hyperbole or you really think that camping fees should cover the cost of building and staffing museums, paying administrators at park headquarters, paying for search and rescue, funding wildlife research and feeding wild animals in hard times. For the record, I think camping fees should cover the cost of the campgrounds and that's it.
As far as being understaffed, I've worked for the Utah Department of Natural Resources, the Utah State Parks and Recreation, the IRS and the Department of Defense. My father was a government employee with the Department of Defense for 30 Years. I have yet to encounter a government agency that did not describe itself as understaffed and underfunded.
