[pct-l] America the Beautiful - the National Parks and Federal Lands", Interagency Recreation Pass Program Rollout

[matt maxon]

Well that's a well and good but I don't go there.

It cost $30 for and "Adventure Pass" so to go from $30 to $80 is a 160% 
increase. This is for new trucks and more tickets and no trail maintenance.

For the one year I can get info on here the Forest Service collected 9 
million$ Now that's alot of $$$ by anybodies counting.

I sure haven't seen $9million worth of improvement's made and certainly 
not $45 million or more since the program started. So now they are going 
to get 160% more or about $15 million for what?

I & every citizen pays taxes which are supposed to pay for many things 
including the up keep of our public lands, private enterprises are 
profit driven, our public lands should not be, and if they are then 
every one who uses them should pay the ACTUAL cost to use them.


Steel-Eye wrote:
> Good evening, Matt,
>
> For that $80 four adults in a vehicle can use the sites for the entire 
> year. Not bad, considering 20 miles up the road from me is Timberline 
> Ski Area on Mt. Hood where a season lift pass for one 23-64 year-old 
> person is $469. plus the price goes up $50 each in '07.  That means 
> over two grand for four adults for a very long season.
>
> Steel-Eye
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "matt maxon" <matt at mattmaxon.com>
> To: "pct List" <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:18 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] America the Beautiful - the National Parks and 
> Federal Lands",Interagency Recreation Pass Program Rollout
>
>
>> Hang on to your wallets!
>>
>> It's gonna cost you $80 for an annual pass now!
>>
>> What a SCREWING
>>
>>  http://store.usgs.gov/pass/index.html
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