Write a letter to the Coconino or Yavapai County Board of Supervisors explaining your disapproval of this program. Ask them to support a county resolution that would call on congress to terminate fee demo and restore funding to the recreation budgets of public land management agencies. Feel free to select one or more of the following to add to your letter. Personal comments/experiences work best. Please let them know that you want you letter shared with all members of the Board of Supervisors."

• The Fee Demo program have been shown to discourage 1 in 4 lower income taxpayers from enjoying their public lands.
• Fee Demo Programs are grossly inefficient: Over 50% of the proceeds are consumed in collection costs while less than 4% of the money collected helps the land itself.
• Fee Demo has been created and lobbied for by trans-national business interests who are hoping to increase their control over our access to and enjoyment of our public spaces for ever greater private profit.
• As a tax to enjoy our National heritage, the program has never been voted upon by our elected representatives.
• The Fee Demo is intrusive. Reports of negative encounters with Rangers are increasingly common. In the Southwest, creating new infrastructure outspent caring for old maintenance problems by nearly two to one. More development will follow as the Forest Service pursues more visitation revenue.
• Across the Nation people are being harassed for simply walking and smiling.

To find your elected officials:

Call or write the U.S. Forest Service, your Congressmen, President George Bush or whomever you think might help. Tell them why you object to this "Demonstration Fee Program." Sign the attached petition from the Washington state organization "Free Our Forests," and gather additional signatures. And, if you dare, engage in a little civil disobedience. Go hiking without a permit!

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