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Name: Anonymous on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Jim Casada on Aug 18, 2011Comments: This fee initative is a travesty. It needs to be stopped in its sorry tracks.In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Robert E White on Aug 18, 2011Comments: No to fees. Hire one more Ranger or one more office person. Operate back country office 8-5, Mon-Fri. No to privatizing the parks. No to contracting Ranger jobs. No to "only those who can afford it" get to visit the back country sites. Close some of the little used and hardly used NPS historic sites and hire more Rangers. No to pay for view publicly owned parks. I can't believe other parks would do this. It's a terrible idea. Writing my elected officials and the president.In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Ann Casada on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Many Waters on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: W.M.Willis on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Doug Hancock on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: David Vitti on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Matt Gilliam on Aug 18, 2011
Comments: The backpackers are the people who love the park and do the most for the park. It's the car riders that take and take and take and never give anything back.In what state do you reside: OtherFlag -
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Name: Charles Duke on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Adam Beal on Aug 18, 2011Comments: This hurts frequent users of the park the most. The GSMNP officials need more than these two meetings on this proposal. I am very much against it.In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Dr. Philip Dwyer on Aug 18, 2011Comments: No service provided by forced revenues could possibly be worth the restrictions imposed on Americans and our guests who travel in the wilderness to seek freedom from such buracrycy.In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 18, 2011Comments: testIn what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Daryl Cox on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Lonnie L. Dockery on Aug 18, 2011Comments: This seems to be a no-brainer. People who use the back country are people who are trying to get away from people and the effects of people-however temporarily. We do not need to have the experience "enhanced" by rangers or anyone else. Furthermore, it is ludicrous to attempt to raise money from a handful of people when there are hoardes using the facilities in the park which are easily accessible. Charge them fees if you want to raise money. Leave the rest of to enjoy what the founders of the park intended us to enjoy. Our fee is our effort.In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Caryn Canfield on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Joanna Swanson on Aug 18, 2011Comments: We need adequate funding from the government to take care of our parks! Charging for enjoyment of public lands is a sad state of affairs. I know it may be unavoidable, but it makes my heart sad.In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Kenneth M. Roper on Aug 18, 2011Comments: There should be no charge for camping in our Great Smokey Mountains Park. Remember the original agreement!!!In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Matthew Timbs on Aug 18, 2011Comments: I am not in favor of charging fees for backcountry permits.In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Kerry L. Sumners on Aug 18, 2011Comments: I am against the charges for backcountry camping and or the proposed reservation system.In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Tipper Pressley on Aug 18, 2011Comments: I am agaisnt the proposed backcountry camping fees.In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Carolyn W. Davidson on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Sarah Casada on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Annette Hensley on Aug 18, 2011Comments: This would be one more totally wrong move made by the park!In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Don Casada on Aug 18, 2011Comments: My backcountry experience would NOT be enhanced by a couple of rangers wandering the trails. More trail maintenance workers to repair horse-damaged or otherwise problematic trail sections? Yes. Rangers in the front country who would actually enforce noise laws that they currently ignore (e.g., motorcycles can be heard on Hughes Ridge, 5 miles from US441) - absolutely.In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Amanda Beal on Aug 18, 2011Comments: I'm concerned about the appropriation of these fees and whether they will truly be used to improve the backcountry. I also feel this proposal unfairly targets a rather small segment of campers who are among those who love and care for the park the most.In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Scott Wood on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Justin Heckman on Aug 18, 2011Comments: As an avid camper, I would be limited in my overnight stays in the park if there are fees added. Keep in mind, the more fees government adds to activities or life styles, the less money there is to go to other things. I would probably cut out camping all together if fees are going to be involved for backcountry sites or if rates are increased for frontcountry sites.In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Brooke Esch on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Kevin Guerra on Aug 18, 2011Comments: Why not charge the horsemen a 15.00 entrance fee the seem to be the ones putting the most impact on the park and its trails.In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: David R. Knapp on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Kenneth Walker on Aug 18, 2011Comments: No money to be made on this idea, charge a users fee to enter cades cove for some big bucks.In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Mike NIemeyer on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Sue E. Niemeyer on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Fred Turner on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Susan Smith on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: George Phoenix on Aug 18, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Tara Jean Melendez on Aug 19, 2011Comments: I use this area often and it is much appreciated to find a place such as this to enjoy without cost; especially in the economy we live in today. I also know the work it takes to keep such an area maintained and guarded. I help in the aid of preservation by volunteering efforts which are available to me. Please keep this area a cost-free one!In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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George Ensley on Aug 19, 2011
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Name: Lawrence Hyatt on Aug 19, 2011Comments: One more broken promiseIn what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Jeff Clinedinst on Aug 19, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: OtherFlag
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Name: Carl Iobst on Aug 19, 2011Comments: Forget it! My people contributed to buy land for this park. It's our land and you're going to charge us to use it?In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Nathan Biggs on Aug 19, 2011Comments: I wholeheartedly agree with the above statements.In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Jennifer Ericson on Aug 19, 2011Comments:In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: Ellen Monteith on Aug 19, 2011Comments: I am opposed to charging fees to be able to camp in the back country of the great smoky mountain national park. This is only a foot in the door, the first step toward wilderness designation. How much more do we have to give before the park says enough????In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Chris McCall on Aug 19, 2011Comments: Prohibit horses within the GSMNP if you want to improve the backcountry experience. They destroy trails, attract annoying insects, smell hideous, and leave you-know-what everywhere they go.In what state do you reside: TennesseeFlag
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Name: C. D. Welch on Aug 19, 2011Comments: Wouldn't object if the money were used to maintain trails and campsites.In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: Dale And Linda Hogue on Aug 19, 2011Comments: We do NOT need a fee to camp in backcountry. Is this a first in a list of fees to be imposed gradually for use of "the people's park"?In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag
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Name: William Burnett on Aug 19, 2011Comments: Just another type of taxation, Park Employees work for the citizens yet they act like they own the Parks especially those in administration..The Smokies belong to the People just like everything else owned by the US Government. Our hired caretakers would do well to remember this.In what state do you reside: North CarolinaFlag