Fantastic. You can think of a good reason to keep these roads open, great, dip into your wallet and buy them from the feds. They’s be glad to give up the maintenance and headaches.
Great idea. Then, let's buy the National Forests, too.
Failing that, the federal government remains responsible for fire-fighting and allowing access.
“buy them from the feds. They’s be glad to give up the maintenance and headaches.”
There is a plan, though you hear little of it these days, to return our part of the continent to wilderness, with humans confined to a few cities linked by “corridors.”
The rapacious acquisition of land by the bureaucrats is in support of that agenda.
It was usually discussed together with the plan to get Americans out of their cars by running up the price of gasoline so high that no one could afford to drive.
The fees the feds collect more than cover any "maintenance" for these roads. They're dirt. Often, those who use the roads for business purposes (farmers and ranchers who may hold grazing permits) pay fees. Those who hunt and fish on federal lands pay access fee for every license they hold. Campers pay fees to camp in campgrounds, those fees cover the costs of maintaining the campgrounds and access to them. These roads are more than paid for by those who use them.
Often, these roads were also built and maintained by logging companies. Once the logging is/was complete, the Forest Service takes over. There was no money invested by the Forest Service to build the roads to begin with. There is very little maintenance performed, dollar wise, on these roads.