The real money will come later through privatizing and commercializing the public lands. Partners will help define the program of work in which they are involved. By shifting funding authority from the Congress to private industry or the general public, Congress and the Forest Service give up their authority to oversee and manage public trust forests. When partners begin defining, and designing projects, Forest Service managerial oversight is completely undermined. Congressional oversight would also be more difficult.
All outdoor recreation causes impacts to the ecological systems within which it occurs.
Soil compaction, increased interactions between humans and wildlife, increased access for poaching, illegal trash dumping, vegetation trampling and increased fire frequency are all related to recreational activities. All outdoor recreation management decisions should be based on allowing the least damage to the land to occur, rather than determining what is the most impact the land can handle. We will be customer driven and will rely on sound marketing to deliver the right services in the right way. If the public chooses not to pay, the experiment will fail. If the fee demonstration doesn t work, and the Forest Service loses the ability to charge for recreational amenities, the recreation industry will also lose their ability to benefit from recreational activities.