Articles written by Russell Sadler

Russell Sadler|Updated Aug 24, 1999

It was not much of a protest as protests go. Only a few hundred people showed up at 31 sites on federal land across the West a little over a week ago to protest the growing practice of charging entry fees on public lands. In Bend, where the protest movement ignited, about 100 hikers, climbers and outdoor recreationists carried signs branding America "the land of the fee." It is difficult to determine whether the weakness of the orchestrated outcry was due to a feeling of impotence in the face of a Congress where everything... Full story