Re: ridecamp-d Digest V00 #725

[MBlanchrd@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/6/00 9:42:08 PM PST, ridecamp-d-request@endurance.net 
writes:

>  it makes parts of PUBLIC land (state or fed, doesn't matter) =
>  inaccessible to the general population (most of whom have paid for that =
>  very land with their tax dollars) and it's making me madder and madder =
>  as I type so I will have to stop right away.

I understand that, Lif.......here in WA State, they've put a$3.00"user's fee" 
if you want to do something like walk through (not hike, just walk) or bird 
watch in the forests and parks. And the fee is only good from March to 
December.
One of the Park officials recently made the comment that "people have to 
accept this fee, otherwise we will be losing money." Wait a minute. Aren't 
these parks already paid for out of our taxes, which are one of the highest 
in the nation, (and we have no state income tax! ((never fear, they're trying 
to ram THAT down our throats, too.)). 
It's getting scary when you consider that poachers are running rampant in the 
parks, ( taking black bear, ginseng, plants, mushrooms, and elk), druggies 
are using them to grow pot and cook meth,  scumballs are using the forests as 
dumps,  and the tree companies are cutting everything they can ('it's a dead 
tree, see that dead branch??) and the only ones not allowed in the forests 
are US. 

Michelle