Had a great conversation with Donna a little while ago on a FB page and just wanted to say thank you Donna for bringing the Park Fees to everyone's attention. It was a hot topic for a while on WB but the topic's there get pretty heated sometimes and folks go off the deep end sometimes, so I don't pay a lot of attention to that. Praying this all gets turned around and we win for the people :)

thanks again,

jim

Was wondering if anyone frequenting this site might recall exactly what year it was that the Park Service previously floated the idea of backcountry fees to pay for a computer reservation system. They held public meetings, which I attended, but I can't recall what year it was and haven't been able to turn up mention of those meetings with online searches. I'm thinking it was somewhere around '02 - '04. What I do recall is that the plan they put forward was to construct their own in-house…