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Originally Posted by BucknutBob
Brain, if so, maybe they should've done like the Black Hills Nat. Forest did, and only charged for annual stickers for the actual users. We now purchase $25 permits for the use of the forest trails, which is plenty reasonable. Putting it to ALL the voters is hardly fair, as most people probably never venture out there, and aren't willing to pay for those that do. Still, $.50/wk is hardly an enormous amount to ask of the general population.
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That is a great idea, I would have no problem buying a permit so I can enjoy our forest roads. It just seems as though great ideas like this don't come to light in CA as they do in other places
I think the main issue here is not so much on fees, but on preserving the forest. It is like you stated before, the blame goes to the careless idiot who goes off the trail and destroys watersheds, hillsides, plants, etc. even though the 99% are responsible and leave the trail the same if not better than they found it. I don't think there is much we can do about that, because there is always going to be that idiot. Maybe if there were more programs like Adopt a Trail or similar, we could do more to fix the trails and preserve their surroundings. To the environmentalist group though, once a trail has been abused it is too late. This in their minds calls for a permanent banning of the trail, and their voice is louder than ours.
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