Does Old Rag Need Rec.gov? Tell the NPS tomorrow in Zoom meeting.

Officials at Shenandoah National Park will be hosting a Zoom meeting on Monday, April 17 at 7pm (1900 hrs) to discuss the results of their Timed Entry Pilot Program on the park’s popular Old Rag Mountain Trail.
Documents show that the number of daily hikers met the limit of 800 per day less than 10% of the pilot, during the 9 month test period. Moreover, all but one of the days that did reach this number were weekend days, showing that at the very least, this restrictive system needn't be a weekday entrance policy.
The question before public land users is whether such numbers warrant a restrictive entrance system that paid a private corporation nearly $100,000 for the service of providing the reservation portal for just this one trail?
Where does this system stop? How long before these polices spread to other hikes that do not need restrictions. Allowing this pilot program to continue sets a very dangerous precedent for the future of trails on which numbers do not meet the numbers that were predicted.
Here are links to both the Zoom meeting, and to the Pilot Study results from 2022, and just for good measure, a similar "pre-proposal" paper from 2020.
Zoom: us06web.zoom.u...
If the links doesn't work, go to the NPS Meeting Notices link page: parkplanning.n...
Pilot Program Results 2022: parkplanning.n...
Pilot Proposal Study 2020: parkplanning.n...
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Just go to the link below, as well as the Google Doc linked below that, copy the FLREA Letter to Reps in Google Docs, then paste that into the comment section in the Democracy IO link. This takes less than two minutes, and you'll rest well, knowing that you took action to affect change for the benefit of future generations of our people.
Democracy.io: democracy.io/#!/
Googel Doc - FLREA - Letter to Reps: docs.google.co...
Here is Matt Stoller's November article on the Rec.gov arrangement: mattstoller.su....
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