Part of the test is to learn how fees can have the least impact on nontraditional users of forests and people of low income. Project managers have worked hard to price passes reasonably and to have different pricing options. Most projects offer single day passes and annual passes that give significant savings for use over a year. Most projects offer volunteer passes as a reward for official volunteer work. School groups in most places enter for free.
Most projects offer free places or free days.
Where there are treaties with American Indian Tribes, Tribe members can use the forest for religious and cultural purposes without paying the fee. A national civil rights impact analysis is a study of fee management practices on national forests and their impacts on participation by low-income populations, American Indians, elderly people on fixed incomes, and people of color. Out of a recent impact analysis came requirements for local project managers to monitor use by certain populations and develop activities that would reduce impacts from recreation fees on these populations. Some law enforcement functions are critical to the success of the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program. However, only 3.5 percent of funds are being spent on law enforcement, program wide.