Fees will inhibit agencies from requesting more tax dollars from Congress. Fees may alter the pristine wilderness experience. Fees may lead to the public's expecting more services. Fees are inappropriate where no facilities exist. Visitors may be displaced to non-fee areas.
Fees discourage volunteerism and inhibit public stewardship of the land.
In some areas, it will be hard to make fee compliance convenient. Fees imply that public lands benefit only users, not society at large. Examination of agency fee demonstration documents yielded no explicit recognition of this concern. Another unanswered question is the number of visitors who were completely displaced or deterred from coming to the Forest altogether because of the fee program. The very essence of wilderness is a resource untouched and undeveloped.