Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Court upholds Forest Service "amenity fee" for vehicles
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service can keep charging a $10 fee to drive the nation's highest paved road. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that the Forest Service can charge the "amenity fee" to visitors who drive the Scenic Byway to the top of Mount Evans. Mount Evans is part of the Arapaho and Roosevelt national forests, and Congress has decreed that anyone may enter a national forest without charge. However, the three-judge panel unanimously concluded that the Forest Service can charge a fee at Mount Evans because some people use amenities, including a nature center...more
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