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Check out article, then # 21 , and esp # 35.
There are a lot of marijuana farms hidden on Nat'l Forest land.
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Posted on 09/23/2014 9:28:34 PM PDT by hiho hiho
The U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country's wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting a photo or video in federally designated wilderness areas.
Under rules being finalized in November, a reporter who met a biologist, wildlife advocate or whistleblower alleging neglect in any of the nation's 100 million acres of wilderness would first need special approval to shoot photos or videos even on an iPhone.
Permits cost up to $1,500, says Forest Service spokesman Larry Chambers, and reporters who don't get a permit could face fines up to $1,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
They are turning the Forrest service and every other government agency that can derive revenue for the government into a fee collection machine.
They are making a competitive game out of it between agencies to see which one out does the other.
While the SEC and related regulators shake down banks and corporations, the Forrest service, Fish and Game and other heartland agencies are armed to the teeth and are shaking down individuals, hunters, property owners...whatever they can lay their hands on.
It’s the same crap that the land barons and the Kings of England were doing centuries ago to fatten their treasuries..
Yes, it’s exactly what the US was founded for in order to escape the government graft and corruption of the State.
Now it’s here, in spades..
The feds have become like butlers who, due to the passage of time, came to believe they owned or inherited the mansion and curtilage.
They are custodians, not proprietors; stewards, not kings.
The problem is ... what we got here with the federales, is a failure to communicate. We call the shots. It belongs to us, not the U.S. Forest Service.
Another example is the Forest Service obeying their master’s voice, after his most recent demand that the debt limit be lifted, and closing outdoor monuments and veteran’s memorials.
They work for us, not the head hired hand.
Maybe they're planning to produce some pro muzzie videos like the National Park Service did and need to get the scratch to pay for them. Or maybe they need the money to pay for some Ma Deuces and Manpads to defend the wildlife.
Yep.
Bingo AAC
They can make all the rules they want, then comes the old issue of enforcing it. Since they’ve already made it clear that the permit starts at $1,500, and the fine is $1,000, seems like anyone who bothers with the permit is wasting $500+, not to mention a whole lot of time.
I’m a landscape photographer and I must admit I haven’t checked on this issue in a few years, but the interpretation of the law was that as long as it’s just a photographer, a camera, and a tripod you wouldn’t need a permit. If it’s an elaborate commercial shoot with lights, models, or assistants, then a permit is necessary. However, as we all know, interpretations have been known to change.
This land is THEIR land not OUR land...
Can't I just ask the tree and the bear for permission to take their pictures?
It looks like too many Forest Service people have way too much free time on their hands.
The world is in a sorry mess, fighting here and fighting there, and they are worried about me taking a picture of a tree and/or bear? Ridiculous. Ridiculous.
Isn’t a spade dark in colour?
Isn’t this a bit racist? s/o
Pictures steal tree souls!!!
with tin foil firmly on my head - what is the Forest Service hiding from public view?
These are the same guys who became Nazi’s against simple tourists in the Olympic National Forest during the recent democrat congress “sequester”.
Thanks for the ping, Nachum.
I wish I could post a picture of one or many of Ansel Adams’ photos.
Check out article, then # 21 , and esp # 35.
There are a lot of marijuana farms hidden on Nat'l Forest land.
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That’s ridiculous.
Thank goodness we have to federal government to protect us. I feel safer knowing a photographer has to pay $1500 to take pictures of Smokey Bear.
So, the way I read this is that it is ok for the govt. to degrade the environment and, if they do that, it is not to be reported. However, the govt. can and will come down hard on the individual for degrading the environment as the sole righteous arbiter of environmental purity.
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