retiredandhappy

I've been doing the same since the NW Forest Pass came out. My second set of plates (CO) are for the same make model & color. Yes I do throw stuff on the dash to hid the VIN. No I've never been towed. I takes about 30 seconds to swap, not noticeable. Looks like I'm adjusting my pack. I have no front plate. I'm retired and travel from state to state to hike. Only in WA, CA & OR do you have to pay to use our National Forests. Go to any other state and there is no payment. Next is the idiocy of the system. Rather then have local pay stations like any other developed country you have to go to somewhere else to buy the required permit. Arrive from out of state and get blindsided my this requirement get a ticket. So why is it that in other states without a Forest Pass system they can maintain hundreds more trails then out here? I volunteer in CO and WA to maintain trails and help restore many washed out trails. In WA I get free NW Forest passes but refuse to use them as a protest. In CO I get beer, CO has better trails and no NAZI Forest Service meter maids. How does that happen? I have no issue with fees to enter National Parks, just the National Forests. The Government sells logging rights to corporations that make a PROFIT off our National Forests. How does this make sense? Companies get to LOG the National Forest and make $$$$, we have to PAY $$$$ just to hike? Why aren't more people protesting this? Sheep I tell ya, you're all sheep.