I guess you don't believe in painting your house either, right? That land belongs to all of us and it needs to be maintained properly. It's not only our responsibility, it's a point of pride that we do it. IT'S OURS!!!!
If I paint my house, I pay for it. That's the difference between private property and public (i.e., government) property. Why does it make sense to you to have citizens in Hawaii pay for the maintenance of forests in Colorado or California? And where in the Constitution is the federal government authorized to control our nation's forests? If the feds had any sense, they would turn control of these parks and forests to their respective states.
Well I agree that it should be a states issue, but it isn't because we elect morons who don't know a thing about the constitution. In the meantime, the law says it's the government resposibility to maintain the land in the national trust. Our first responsiblity is to elect people smart enough to pass a law that returns public trust land to the states, but our second responsibility is to turn that land back in proper condition. Unless we do, all we'll be turning back is blackened stumps.