How Much is Your Crag Worth?

I’m just going to leave this here. Curious what y’all think.

How Much is Your Crag Worth?

Good pts.

I’m for it. Let’s go 

Yep, climbing has grown enough as an outdoor public land use it is ready for tax’s on gear to go to land and access preservation.  Yep.

A few % on gear would add up to a lot of money for conservation, as long as the bills are written correctly and all the money goes where it should.

There's nobody you can vote for who is anti military industrial complex, unfortunately.

I'd rather pay for fee based climbing permits than taxing gear sales. These sorts of things make me feel like the word 'conservation' is just a buzz word with no meaning. 

So how much is a crag worth, no more than the fee to file a mining claim.

A potentially silly solution would be for the federal government to start a fund that is allocated to the top x government organizations with the cleanest "audit scores". This would be funded from the governmental organizations with the bottom x "audit scores" receiving a penalty that reduces their annual budget by a % meaningful enough to hurt.

The defense department has failed every single audit it's undergone, indicating that there is mass wastage of money. This structure would incentivize the military to crack down on fraud and waste, all the while paying penalties into this fund that could help fund the NPS (assuming they can swing a clean audit).

Not Hobo Greg wrote:

How about we spend a littttttle less on the military instead? The BLM has a budget of $1.6 billion, the NPS $2.76 billion. The military? $800 billion. Take even 1% of that and you free up $8 billion dollars for public lands, and we’d still have an outrageously overfunded military. Stop voting for the military industrial complex.

Agree 100% too bad we'll never have a political option that would actively make the changes. (Insert George Carlin quote)