Olympic National Park: Fee Increase
This seems to be a pretty volatile subject, judging by articles and letters in the PDN.
Olympic National Park has proposed increasing the 7-day pass from $15 to $25. The annual pass would increase from $30 to $50. If approved, these increases would take effect in January 2009.
Do you think these increases are necessary? Of course they suck, but federal funding for national parks has been dwindling and dwindling. With the federal government's high emphasis on invading other countries and cutting taxes for billionaires, national forests, state parks and national parks are barely an afterthought.
So these fee increases might be necessary. What do YOU think?
Olympic National Park has proposed increasing the 7-day pass from $15 to $25. The annual pass would increase from $30 to $50. If approved, these increases would take effect in January 2009.
Do you think these increases are necessary? Of course they suck, but federal funding for national parks has been dwindling and dwindling. With the federal government's high emphasis on invading other countries and cutting taxes for billionaires, national forests, state parks and national parks are barely an afterthought.
So these fee increases might be necessary. What do YOU think?
posted by Tom Harper at 2:55 PM
5 Comments:
They have talked about this all before. If I recall correctly, user fees from the park do not go to the park but just go into the general fund.
So really its just funding the war and the tax break for the ultra rich.
funding incompetence in government....how can anyone be okay with this?
actually in the past 10 years the funding structure has changed so about 85 percent goes to the park and the rest is distributed to the NPS. But yes that used to be the case that it went into the general fund.
Please, cite your assertions. I cannot find any where that says that the funding structure has been changed.
Sorry... I did just sort of throw that out there... my information comes from Bill Laitner, superintendent of Olympic National Park. I'll try and find a documented reference of this and post it here.
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