Posted on 09/24/2014 5:45:30 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The U.S. Forest Service is finalizing plans to fine photographers who shoot on federal wild lands without a permit.
Under the measure, still photography and commercial filming in Congress-designated wilderness areas would require a permit, and shoots would also have to be approved and meet certain criteria like not advertising any product or service and being educational.
Permits would cost up to $1,500, even if someone was taking photos or video with their phone, and fines for shooting without a permit could be as high as $1,000, according to the Oregonian. A spokesman for the Forest Service did not immediately return a request for comment.
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LOOKING IS PUNISHABLE BY FINE OR IMPRISONMENT.
Remember when Barry shut down Mt Rushmore?
This is a response to the Bundy ranch video tape thing. Watch out, they want their quiet Waco massacres.
At a time when Mexico and Russia encourage dash cams because of government corruption, our fed Nazis want to ban them.
You just insulted fine, upstanding, self respecting, well meaning scum. These bastards, SOBs,POSs, MOFOs and F heads are not even THAT good.
Isn’t the dispute with Bundy on federal wild lands?
The first time I heard this (yesterday), it more had to do with the media (commercial) and not tourists (private).
How are you going to tell junior he can’t use his Brownie Hawkeye when out camping?
Such signs were used to keep homosexuals from using these places for evening snipe hunts.
If I am going to have to pay to take pics...I’ll tell the forest service to KMA...
We former citizens have become mere cows to be milked by our government overlords. Our role is to produce wealth so that the state can extract it to support the bureaucrats and their friends and allies. Don’t cha know?
How ironic that one of the most spectacular wilderness areas - California’s Ansel Adams Wilderness - is named after a commercial photographer who never paid these fees.
How ironic that one of the most spectacular wilderness areas - Californias Ansel Adams Wilderness - is named after a commercial photographer who never paid these fees.
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Bumper sticker in Arizona reads:
Can’t See The Forest For The FEES
The liberal dominated forest service believes the forest is there just for themselves. How did this ever happen? Where did this special problem come from?
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