GC Access
Cowles in Santa Fe (cowles@roadrunner.com)
Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:17:20 -0600
Good to see Ricardo's proper emphasis on the fundamental issues of
"access" and "fairness".
Maybe I missed a previous explanation, but what happens to unused
commercial permits? Are there any? Are they put back in a common pool
that is then made available to all (I think some permit-controlled
rivers do this)? Same questions apply to cancellations by science
groups, NPS groups, and any other "privileged" groups.
Also, is there an analysis of what happens to the cancelled private
permits (the mysterious 40% that gets bandied about)? We've been
calling the NPS GC cancel number 3-4 times a day for the past six weeks
and all we get is the same old recording saying the cancellation rate is
running about one a week. That would seem to add up to 50-some cancels
a year, or only 125 private permits being issued a year, assuming any
validity to the 40% rate.
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