I’m afraid that The Tribune’s “Proposed fee hikes are too much” editorial is evident of a typical mindset that the treasures we have in our irreplaceable and over-visited big five national parks are worth so little to so many.
It costs an adult $100 plus per person per day to go to Disneyland, EPCOT, Universal Studios, etc., and yet the editorial board thinks that increasing park vehicle fees from $30 to $70 is too much? I’m guessing that if you dug deeper you’d find that the cost of basic services (toilets, signage, roads, emergency services, training, staffing, equipment) has not gone down in the last decade, while visitors have increased substantially in all of the parks.