Or does the USFS not bother or have funds to cleanup "trashed cars" in the forest.
Here is the issue--there are no allocated funds to clean up "dumping" in the forest. Monies are allocated (albeit less and less every year) to do standard clean up for recreation facilites and popular recreation areas. Adventure Pass monies are supposed to supplement the meager funds that congress gives the agency. Even the "sexy" National Park Service is being cut to the bone (e.g. Yosemite has 43 interpretive ranger postions--they currently have the funds to hire 8....). So, since no monies are allocated out of the budget for the illegal dumping, the functions in the agency (recreation, wildlife, watershed, timber, botany, etc.) have to "eat" it when these dumps are cleaned up. Even on the rare occasions when the person is caught dumping, the fines are minimal. And on the even rarer occasions when they have to pay the cleanup fee--guess what? The money goes to the general treasury and the functions that paid for the original cleanup are still left holding the (trash) bag.... The funds are not reimbursed into the account where it came out of, the monies just go back to the black hole in Washington D.C.
Helicoptering out this vehicle would run over $10,000. What do you not want to get done in order to do this? Wouldn't it be cheaper to let it slide down the mountain and pick it up when it hits the wash?
