While cash-strapped land managers praise the Recreation
Fee Demonstration Program, some recreationists and activists rail
against it, and others point out that the program isn't producing
as much money as was hoped for.
Magazine
February 14, 2000
While cash-strapped land managers praise the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program, some recreationists and activists rail against it, and others point out that the program isn't producing as much money as was hoped for.
Feature
Sidebar
A comparison of the different fees for recreational use in
different national forests, national parks and recreation areas
around the West.
Some social scientists and activists charge that user fees
will have a disproportionate impact on working-class people and
shut many of them out of the public lands.
Inyo National Forest Supervisor Jeff Bailey says that fee
demo is not the full answer to the forest's many needs.
In his own words, Scott Silver of Wild Wilderness
denounces the fee demo program.
Former Inyo wilderness ranger Gary Guenther says that
recreation should be subsidized as the extractive industries have
always been.
Chris Wood, senior policy advisor to Forest Service Chief
Mike Dombeck, discusses the pros and cons of fee demo.
Sun Valley, Idaho, resident Diana Fassino, is among the
protesters who have gone to court over their refusal to pay
recreation fees.
Uncommon Westerners
Activist and inspiration Hazel Wolf dies at 101.
Essays
A hunter condemns "salt baiting" - using illegal salt pits
to lure elk out of Yellowstone into the open, where trophy hunters
easily ambush them.
Book Reviews
The Clinton administration proposes to amend the Northwest
Forest Plan, for which comments are being accepted by March
3.
The National Commission on Small Farms released a report
card grading the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's effort to help family
farmers.
The Forest Service has extended the comment deadline for
Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness management
plan.
In "Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West,"
Chip Ward describes how his home of Grantsville, Utah, came to be
one of the county's worst toxic dumping grounds.
In "Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture and Conflict in
the Changing West," Timothy P. Duane discusses how growth has hit
California's Sierra Nevada.
The 20-year-old quarterly "Women in Natural Resource"
covers the changing role of women in the natural resource
professions.
Jay W. Nicholas uses simple language and colorful
watercolors to explain Oregon's salmon recovery plan in his book
"Down to the Sea."
Heard Around the West
Post Office vs. Grand Canyon, gobbledygook in D.C.; Salt
Lake keeps eye on movies, nose on smells; faux snow; cougar vs.
dog; rabbits vs. Sheridan, Wyo.; roadkill for dinner; snowmobiler
survival near Spokane.
Dear Friends
HCN potluck and meeting in Las Vegas; HCN's budget;
goodbyes and hellos.
News
The new Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South
Dakota will teach visitors about the Cold War and its once-top
secret weaponry.
U.S. admits exposing nuclear workers to radiation; Gloria
Flora speaks in Kalispell, Mont.; Yellowstone Wolf No. 9 "retires"
from pack; Air Force sued over low-level training flights;
rancher's road permit in limbo in Arrastra Wilderness,
Arizona.
John Mumma resigns as director of the Colorado Division of
Wildlife as agency morale drops under a state government
unsympathetic to wildlife.
In Washington state, TV commercials use Bill Nye, "The
Science Guy," to inform voters about how candidates up for
re-election have voted on green issues.
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