Welcome! To The

Western Slope No-Fee Coalition Website

The Western Slope No-Fee Coalition is a broad-based organization consisting of diverse interests including property rights advocates, hiking, boating, and motorized interests, community groups, local and state elected officials, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, and just plain citizens. We have members and member groups in 33 states.

Our goals are:

To eliminate recreation fees for general access to public lands managed by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management
To eliminate backcountry fees and interpretive program fees in National Parks, once an Entrance Fee has been paid
To require more accountability within the land management agencies
To encourage Congress to adequately fund our public lands

The Western Slope No-Fee Coalition supports passage of Senate Bill S.2438, the Fee Repeal and Expanded Access Act, sponsored by Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester of Montana, Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho, and Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado. Under the Fee Repeal Act, policies that worked well for over thirty years under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 will be reinstated, and the decade-long failed experiment with recreation user fees will end.

At this site you can learn about the history and current status of recreation user fees, read related laws, read press coverage of the fee issue from around the country, and find out how to take action to help restore the American heritage of public access to public lands.

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