Posted on 09/24/2014 11:38:10 AM PDT by redreno
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 ...
This land is your land,
this land is my land...
Permits? We don’t need no stinking permits!
Public land - screw ‘em....
Papieren, bitte!
Taking pictures of the forest steals some of it’s spirit essence and weakens mother Gaia.
Are we getting a vision of communists run America yet? We are here now and nothing in either party will give America back to the people. America is a communists Country and freedom is just about gone.
Don’t we pay for these reserved areas through our taxes?
Yet another useless agency that needs to be reigned in and most employees fired.
They didn’t say a thing about production companies filming the likes of “Prospectors”. Wonder what they are worried about.
These mindless unelected beaurcrats are unaware who owns these lands.
“...whistleblower alleging neglect in any of the nation’s 100 million acres of wilderness..”
Uuuummmm, we are neglecting the wilderness...uuuummmmm, I have a question, what did the wilderness do before humans showed up...just curious. I always thought that “the” wilderness just sort of took care of itself...Did I get that wrong, I mean when I was a Boy Scout that is what they always taught me - Circle of life....etc, etc, etc....
That Ansel Adams felon..............
Take pictures of the forest = jail time.
Cross the border illegally = free benefits for life.
Don’t the forests belong to the King?
They don’t want reporters inadvertently or “vertently” taking pictures of hidden FEMA concentration camps.
” The short history of the post-war welfare state is that you don’t need a president-for-life if you’ve got a bureaucracy-for-life.”
Mark Steyn
Now people won’t be able to see the forest for the fees.
This isn’t another Semmens satire?
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