The RAT Drives the Public Away-
Fees Keeping People Off Their Land: When the public stops using public lands, who will be there to protect them? By Bill Schneider. New West.
Even many western Republicans hate these fees — the RAT (Recreation Access Tax). The new […]
Continue Reading →Now the Bush Administration wants to charge fees and require permits for people who commercially take photos or film in the national parks, national forests, BLM lands and wildlife refuges.
This is another attempt to steal your rights to use your public land right out from under you, and also to prevent coverage of what […]
Continue Reading →Federal Lands Recreational Enhancement Act (FLREA) was passed in the dark of night in 2004. It has become known to its opponents as the Recreation Access [to public lands] tax, or “the RAT,” for helping us remember it.
By “dark of the night,” I mean it was added to the omnibus appropriations bill with no […]
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