Everyone knows the USFS is bad with numbers and can't account for hundreds of millions of your dollars it wastes each fiscal year. But, you would have thought the Forest Service could, at least, count to 100 !
We'll, a federal judge in Oregon has just ruled that the U.S.
Forest Service FAR exceeded the authority Congress gave them with the fee-demo program and that the USFS had been demanding fee payment at MANY more recreation sites that Congress permitted.
MANY more sites. TENS OF THOUSANDS MORE sites. This is RIP-OFF of massive proportions!!!
So if you ever paid a recreation fee for use of Forest
Service-managed land, or if you ever received a notice of non-compliance and then paid the fee believing that you owed the USFS money --- chances are you were robbed!
It's time to DEMAND your money back.
If you don't, the Forest Service will continue to count you as
supporting the fee-demo program. If you don't demand a refund, then Congress will make recreation user fees permanent and America's public lands will never be the same again.
PS ... The USFS believes that they WON.
It's up to you to prove them wrong.
