Dear HCN,
One thing you failed to
mention in your feature article on user fees was the Park Service’s
perpetual con game about being short of money (HCN, 10/13/97). To
get their point across, they defer road maintenance and close
campgrounds, items highly visible to the public. What the public
does not see is any reduction in yearly tens of millions of
dollars’ worth of land purchases.
Only the Park
Service could close a campground to save $60,000 a year in
Yellowstone, yet spend over $333,000 on a two-hole outhouse with no
running water in a national recreation area north of
Philadelphia.
Steve
Hicks
Livingston,
Montana
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