Fish & Game rescue fund troubles

[fatlazyless]

One can either pay three dollars/day to park in the WMNF at a pay deposit tube located at the trailhead parking lot, or pay 20-dollars for a windshield sticker, good for a year, or 25-dollars for two vehicles. At 20-dollars per year, that's a low price for what you get.

The WMNF is extremely clean with pretty much zero litter. What had been eroded and worn out trails have been rebuilt by paid trail crews working on the trails so they don't get washed away or walked away. It makes a big difference on all the hiking trails, and rebuilding trails is slow, tedious and difficult work using railroad crowbars, picks, shovels, and elbow grease.

The White Mountain trails system used to be all rocks, roots, and erosion; about 30-40 years ago in the 1970's, and now the trails are in much better shape thanks to both volunteer and paid trail crews.

What's the better way to go? 3-dollars/ visit or $20/year or paying zero? Whatcha thinkum? Unless you are a teenager, there's no free rides....

[MAXUM]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

One can either pay three dollars/day to park in the WMNF at a pay deposit tube located at the trailhead parking lot, or pay 20-dollars for a windshield sticker, good for a year, or 25-dollars for two vehicles. At 20-dollars per year, that's a low price for what you get.

The WMNF is extremely clean with pretty much zero litter. What had been eroded and worn out trails have been rebuilt by paid trail crews working on the trails so they don't get washed away or walked away. It makes a big difference on all the hiking trails, and rebuilding trails is slow, tedious and difficult work using railroad crowbars, picks, shovels, and elbow grease.

The White Mountain trails system used to be all rocks, roots, and erosion; about 30-40 years ago in the 1970's, and now the trails are in much better shape thanks to both volunteer and paid trail crews.

You know what FLL, Pike National Forest in central Colorado is just as clean and well kept, very heavily used yet is FREE. That is just one of many many examples. The same problems exist, if not to a greater degree since out there, huge trail systems (miles and miles) are made available for OHRV riding and 4WD vehicles. If you think repairing damage from a little foot traffic on a hand full of trails is expensive how about hundreds of miles of trails at times tore up by off road vehicles. Yet for some mysterious reason they don't seem to have the need to charge people. Why is that?