As a civil servant when spent three decades working for the Forest Service, Susan Marsh has a question for Mountain Journal readers: think of your most memorable moment on public land in the West: did it involve a place where crowds dominated the setting or an experience quieter and more intimate?  Marsh says the bill mentioned in her piece would incentivize public land managers to expand infrastructure and trails to support more industrial strength tourism and yet the agencies have little idea what the impacts are to wildlife, landscape and sense of place.  Photo of Old Faithful courtesy Susan Marsh
As a civil servant when spent three decades working for the Forest Service, Susan Marsh has a question for Mountain Journal readers: think of your most memorable moment on public land in the West: did it involve a place where crowds dominated the setting or an experience quieter and more intimate? Marsh says the bill mentioned in her piece would incentivize public land managers to expand infrastructure and trails to support more industrial strength tourism and yet the agencies have little idea what the impacts are to wildlife, landscape and sense of place. Photo of Old Faithful courtesy Susan Marsh