North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground, Whitman National Forest, Oregon

Dear Cliff Bentz,

I’m a constituent in Oregon’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground, Whitman National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t.

All 1 sites at North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

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Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground, Whitman National Forest, Oregon

Dear Jeff Merkley,

I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground, Whitman National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t.

All 1 sites at North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground (Whitman National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com

Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground, Whitman National Forest, Oregon

Dear Ron Wyden,

I’m a constituent in Oregon. I tried to camp at North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground, Whitman National Forest, Oregon, and couldn’t.

All 1 sites at North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

Sent about North Fork Catherine Creek Group Campground (Whitman National Forest, Oregon) via campanac.com