Saturday, April 29, 2006

YELLOWSTONE INCREASES FEES:

Federal Policies Shock Photographers,
many will soon be out of business.













-- A new fee schedule has been enacted for filming in our national parks. Yellowstone Park will now be charging at least $150 per day for commercial filming. For some photographers, who's life work is filming, this could be nearly $50,000 per year.
-- With a "one size fits all" philosophy, the National Park Service is busy increasing fees of all types. Budget cuts, andanticipated budget cuts, are making a real dent in the appeal of Yellowstone Park, and other parks in the system.

Filming Fees:
http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2006/04/29/newsnationworld/hjjdjfhajiiehe.txt

General Fee Increases:
http://yellowstoneparknews.blogspot.com/2006/04/yellowstone-attacked-by-bush.html#links

http://aparkforallseasons.blogspot.com/2006/03/are-you-wealthy-enough-to-care-about.html

http://www.rapidblogs.com/oscargrouch/?p=5