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establish fees commensurate with the revenue-producing 

 potentialities of the privilege of using national 

 forest lands. Since the proposed method of basing 

 fees on a percentage of gross revenues would result 

 in some increase in fees, it was immediately attacked 

 by the permittees and they formed an association to 

 fight the plan, hiring to head it a former member of 

 the Forest Service. However the plan was adopted and 

 has been working successfully though some permittees 

 continue to protest. One test of the plan s soundness 

 is the fact that when some of the larger concessions 

 are offered for competitive bidding, bidders have often 

 offered a fee higher than the base rate. 



Relations With Other Agencies 

 National Park Service 



For many years the National Park Service was 

 intermittently active in efforts to &quot;raid&quot; the national 

 forests for the establishment of new national parks 

 or the enlargement of existing parks. There was 

 surreptitious reconnoitering of national forest areas 

 and proposals affecting the national forests without 

 consultation with the Forest Service. 



