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 ...
Correct, but it was far more than just Olympic Nat'l Forest. It was all National Parks and Monuments.
These public employees showed their true colors during the sequester, and I will never respect them ever again. That goes for Park Police as well as regular forest rangers. They are our enemy.
They have been weaponized. They are not on the side of freedom and liberty.
How did I fall off your ping list, LucyT?
Please reinstate me?
He got in before the 1964 legislation. And even then it may not have been applied to gallery and poster artists at that time.
Uh, oh!
My apology.
You’re added again.
"Commercial" photographic license probably (but I have no idea) includes gallery prints, posters, stock photography, greeting cards, advertising, book covers, album covers, etc. And apparently "journalism" itself is commercial (you got paid for it, didn't you?).
We have a public funded privately held park in this city. You have to pay to take graduation photos, engagement photos, and quiencierra photos there (about a hundred dollars a day, if I recall).
Thank you. Sorry I unsubbed. I was in a mood, but not at you!
To a reasonable person, yes. But to anticapitalists (and the sort who would Barry-cade public monuments out of spite), "exploitation" would include profiting off of the imagery of (same with those who trademark a likeness and go after Elvis or Marilyn Monroe impersonators, both long dead).
Every once in a while someone gets dropped, probably because I’m in a hurry and don’t notice, esp if they are at the end of the list. I’ve dropped one freeper three times over the years. She has been very patient with my goofs, and it is appreciated.
This “Photography Permit” is a tax, PERIOD.
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