Forest Service Fees Archives - Colorado Central Magazine

Where’s the equal protection in forest user-fee laws?

November 26, 2009June 1, 2000 by Staff

Letter from Steve Hannon

Forest Service Fees – June 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine

Dear Editors,

About the latest expansion of fees to use our public lands, it only seems fair that those who use something should pay for it.

What about livestock? Public-lands ranchers pay approximately $1.50 per “animal unit month” — a cow and calf for one month. That’s 1,000 pounds on eight feet that stomp all over the land, but mainly wetlands, at a fee of 5¢ per day. Each human fee-payer averages 150 pounds on two feet, at $10 per day.

Fee impacts potentially huge for Forest Service

November 26, 2009June 1, 2000 by Staff

Sidebar by Bob Berwyn

Forest Service Fees – June 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine

When and if the recreation fee program is made permanent, the greatest impact will likely be felt on lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, simply because the agency is by far the largest federal provider of outdoor recreation.

Historic buildings could come under recreation fee umbrella

November 26, 2009June 1, 2000 by Staff

Sidebar by Bob Berwyn

Forest Service Fees – June 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine

As Congress prepares to consider making the recreation fee program permanent, Forest Service recreation managers are putting together a wish list by identifying sites that could benefit from the cash infusion that fees can bring.

On the Pike-San Isabel National Forest, the emphasis seems to be on a series of historic buildings that the agency would like to open up to the public. Currently, there is very little funding available to preserve valuable historic resources.

Uncle Sam wants you to pay to play on public land

November 26, 2009June 1, 2000 by Staff

Article by Bob Berwyn

Forest Service Fees – June 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine

IT’S THE BEST TIME of the year at Cataract Lake. The fields are full of sassy wildflowers, each flaunting a brighter color than the next. The lake, cradled in its setting of glacially polished granite, glistens like an alpine jewel, reflecting the toothy crags of the Gore Range.