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Originally Posted by TUFFTORQ
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Special Recreation Permits
Examples: Wilderness areas, shooting ranges, specialized trail systems
Explanation: Permits are issued when extra measures are required for natural and cultural resource protection, or the health and safety of visitors. They may also be used to disperse recreation use or help ensure that the number of visitors does not exceed the capacity of the land.
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What's interesting to me is that I recently asked a forest service land manager about apllying to be on this funding committee. He insisted that these fees had absolutely nothing to do with trails and that I would be wasting my time.(and I'm one of the few 'possibly' on his side if the fee is reasonable and said funding is never diverted elsewhere)
When I see workshops in CA being orgainized by the forest service personnel
themselves; complete with advertised Q&A sessions...as opposed to the NOHVCC/"off-road community"sponsored workshops here in Michigan
barely announced publicly with nothing but politico-speak "objectives" put forward and no advertised opportunity to do the same...it makes one wonder why every state's meeting regarding
the same damn subject can't be brought forward in anything even resembling a similar manner.
CA forest employees seem to begiven the opportunity to run thehow....while Michigan employees seemingly only get a call from their boss to 'be there' and not even a call from our community asking these attendees to put theflipping thing on their website before the registration deadline passes.
What's the deal?
Isn't there any single-track-me-only-trails being back-door pushed through these forests in CA?