since9
Campaign Veteran
Dear Congressman X:
We the People of the United States of America do NOT fork out over $5 BILLION to the U.S. Forest Service just so they can turn around and fine us $1,000 for taking photos of family members or our campsite in a national forest!
Yes, it's true.
Colorado is covered in National Forest, as are much of our other 50 States. I've taken thousands of pictures of friends, family, nature, and wildlife in National Forests. Must I now stuff them all in a box or on a hard drive never to be seen again because yet another government agency is being allowed to create its own income-generating rules at the expense of U.S. Taxpayers and without proper or effective, much less sane, Congressional oversight?
Why is Congress allowing government agencies to run roughshod over the People whom government is supposed to be serving, not fleecing?
What, specifically, are you going to do to put an immediate stop to this insane nonsense?
"According to the text of the regulation, the USFS requires a permit for any photography that “uses models, sets, or props that are not a part of the site’s natural or cultural resources.” So technically, if your mom in your hiking photo, she’s a model, and you owe USFS a thousand bucks. Want to take a picture of your backpack on top of a summit? Sorry, that’s a prop, fork over another grand."
Here's a link to the regulation.
Do you know what time it is? It's time to change the blasted regulation! That's what time it is!
We the People of the United States of America do NOT fork out over $5 BILLION to the U.S. Forest Service just so they can turn around and fine us $1,000 for taking photos of family members or our campsite in a national forest!
Yes, it's true.
Colorado is covered in National Forest, as are much of our other 50 States. I've taken thousands of pictures of friends, family, nature, and wildlife in National Forests. Must I now stuff them all in a box or on a hard drive never to be seen again because yet another government agency is being allowed to create its own income-generating rules at the expense of U.S. Taxpayers and without proper or effective, much less sane, Congressional oversight?
Why is Congress allowing government agencies to run roughshod over the People whom government is supposed to be serving, not fleecing?
What, specifically, are you going to do to put an immediate stop to this insane nonsense?
"According to the text of the regulation, the USFS requires a permit for any photography that “uses models, sets, or props that are not a part of the site’s natural or cultural resources.” So technically, if your mom in your hiking photo, she’s a model, and you owe USFS a thousand bucks. Want to take a picture of your backpack on top of a summit? Sorry, that’s a prop, fork over another grand."
Here's a link to the regulation.
Do you know what time it is? It's time to change the blasted regulation! That's what time it is!