would you pay $41 to enter a National Park?
I am calling BS on this story. Read it and the implication is that folks would be okay with an 80% increase in entrance fees if it ensured they would see a bear Article
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tsetsaf wrote:
I am calling BS on this story. Read it and the implication is that folks would be okay with an 80% increase in entrance fees if it ensured they would see a bear Article
Sorry, I cannot and will not trust "news" sources from a local TV station. Kalj18 is not Reuters.
The content is supposedly the results of a "survey." Accuracy, and methods used unknown. "Figures don't lie but liars figure." Professor of statistics.- No real facts on the fees, just what I was told by the Park Service and COE Rangers. Money put into the donation boxes does get to stay at the facility where it was donated.
- National Parks - The Land of "NO"
Too many people ruin the place - they love it to death
There are hundreds of places where you can be as close to bears as you desire
Griz or Black or Brown what ever you desire
Check out a National Forrest far less use of the word "NO" you can not do that what ever it is you want to do - Even at $66.00 a 7 day pass to Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks is a fantastic bargain. And I have no doubt visitation wouldn't drop a bit if that became the going rate. There are already several national parks at $50.00 and that only gets you the one park, not two like the Yellowstone/Grand Teton pass does.
- In the Smokey Mountain Nat'l park it will cost you 00$ and you will almost invariably see at least one black bear. However, be prepared to drive in bumper to bumper traffic all day long.
- Pay me $41 and I'll show you some bears and wolves. Pay me first in case you get too close. LOL Probably see as many grizzles and wolves in the national forests for free. We had both grizzles and wolves on our property. Grizzles like the apples off our trees.
- WyoTraveler
I agree 100%
You used the word "had" as compared to "have" guess you are not there anymore
We still use the word "have" Wolf, Griz, Black, Elk, Moose, Turkey, Coyote, Deer, Eagles, Osprey, etc......
It's wonderful and even better very few if any folks here they tend to hang out at the land of "no" Johno02 wrote:
If you are not aware of it, the fees for National Parks access goes directly to Washington and into the general budget. Meanwhile, the budget for National Parks is being cut more and more, down to the point that there is very little or no maintenance staff, and fewer Rangers. At at least one major National monument, visited by thousands daily, there is no handicap access to restrooms or the biggest part of the monument. The equipment is there, but is not used due to the cost of maintenance. So, if you want to see our National parks, you better do it before they are all sold to private companies and the price will really go up then! Most visitor facilities and shops are already being run by private contractors,and volunteers working for free.
Where are people getting this information?
While this was true a long time ago, it hasn't been the case for almost 20 years.
If local rangers are telling this to visitors, they are probably seasonals that don't have any idea about funding or budgeting in the Federal recreation programs.
The Fee Demonstration program began in 1996 and this ultimately led to formalization of the program across all Federal properties with Recreation programs via the Recreation Enhancement Act in December of 2004.
I am a retired federal lands recreation manager and I am very familiar with the recreation enhancement act. It literally amounted to millions of dollars that we were able to keep and spend on crews, maintenance, and other recreation-related projects on the same unit that collected the fees.
Here is a link directly to Yellowstone's website which says the park keeps 80% of all the fees they collect. (The other 20% stays with the NPS, but can be used anywhere across the country. This is done to help out less visited parks.)
Link to Yellowstone NP fee pageJohno02 wrote:
If you are not aware of it, the fees for National Parks access goes directly to Washington and into the general budget.
Completely wrong. 80% of fees stay with the park in which they were received. The rest goes to the National Park Service as a whole to be used as needed (such as in parks with no fees).
Also,it is not $25 per day per person as the article states. It is $25 per car for 7 days. If you have 4 people in your car, it works out to 89 cents per day per person for the entrance fee. Try to go anywhere else in the country for that.
