>>829981(3/4)
> currently dispered camping is becoming prohibited in my national forest because the new concessionaire feels it will take away profits from his parking permits and camping fees. Yep someone a cooperation already owns the rights to your national forests and Parks.What forest? The forest will sometimes close areas to dispersed sites due to overuse. In addition, there are dispersed camping rules, one is that you can't camp within a mile of an established campground or other improved site, which would include concessionaire sites. The reasons those are there, by the way, is because your forests and your parks are being drastically underfunded and understaffed. A lot of basic functions of the forest service and the NPS, for instance research or maintenance, is being done now through contract with universities (who can basically get their students to do it for free as an internship) or by the Job Corps and the Americorps (you pay for their food and gas basically). Sometimes, you don't even have the budget to hire anyone, so stuff doesn't get done. Everyone is being told to do the same amount of work with less financial support and man power. It's also currently a hassle to get people hired, especially qualified people, due to some issues with how veteran's preference works. Crafting the job opening takes 6 months alone (if you aren't using a general hiring description) and hiring can take another 3. You also can't directly convert seasonals to permanents, which means that any experience they gain working for you is lost. There are other issues, like how the Forest Service budget gets gobbled up by firefighting every year (60% last fiscal year) because wildfires aren't considered a natural catastrophe and therefore don't qualify for FEMA money or support.
