Keeping Campsites Open for True Owners
* Closing the campgrounds in the Angeles National Forest is a typical bureaucratic non-solution to a perceived problem.
If so many people want to use the campsites (and who are the true owners of the property) why not increase the fee for using the campsites and pay the rangers to maintain them?
I have heard, and I believe, that the user fees disappear in Washington. If that is true, it is a perfect argument for decentralized control and giving the district ranger the authority and responsibility of setting and collecting user fees to accommodate the local condition and to serve the public.
ROBERT WORCESTER
Chatsworth
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