Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act

USFS needs you to serve: You can help set national forest recreation fees in the Upper Peninsula and NE Wisconsin – that help places like Grand Island in Alger County

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Help the USFS regulate recreation fees for use of National Forests in the Upper Peninsula and northeast Wisconsin

By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433

These rec fees are important and up to 90 percent is returned to the specific forest – for example Grand Island in Munising, MI.

U.P. Breaking News believes now more than ever – we need to help preserve our national forests.

Have you ever wanted to have more say on what fees are charged to those enjoying Upper Peninsula National Forests

Have you ever complained about recreation fees? Do you agree with the value in the fees?

If you have strong feelings about these matters please answer the USFS call for committee members. Now you can help set those fees which are important to the Upper Peninsula and NE Wisconsin.

Money from these fees will help improve the Ottawa National Forest and Hiawatha National Forest.
The U.S. Forest Service needs people to serve:

Applications are available at:
https://www.ocio.usda.gov/document/ad-755

Completed applications are due by February 1, 2018.

Must be mailed to:

USFS Region 9 – Recreation RAC Nomination
  Attn: Jennifer Wright
231 North Main Street
Rutland, VT 05701

RRAC_Committee Member Search_News Release Nov 2017

USFS Rec Fees Committe needs members

There are 17 national forests and one national tallgrass prairie in the Eastern Region.

For more information, visit www.fs.usda.gov/R9.

The Eastern Region-wide RAC is authorized by the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (FLREA).

Similar to the way the local National Forests’ Secure Rural Schools Act RACs help to administer the SRS Act, the Regional Recreation RAC helps administer FLREA by determining which FLREA recreation fees to approve.

There are two  RACs on the Ottawa National Forest and one on the Hiawatha National Forest

For instance, on the Hiawatha, Grand Island is one of the FLREA fee sites.

This means about 85-90% of the fees charged in U.P. national forests actually come back to the Forest to reinvest in Grand Island specifically, instead of going back to the Treasury.

Powerpoint about the FLREA:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5358261.pdf