They have already ripped us off at Mt. Lemmon. Now get ready to hand over another $5 bill to go to Sabino Canyon.

Starting in February, it is going to cost an additional $5 per day or $20 annually to park at Sabino Canyon, as the area is added to the existing Catalina Mountains Pass Program. The program already applies to Mt. Lemmon.

This program is not local, but rather part of a much more perfidious and extensive scheme- a nationwide Demonstration Recreation Fee Program applied within certain U.S. Forest Service lands. This experimental program sneaked through Congress as a rider when they approved a fiscal year 1997 appropriation bill, thus allowing no debate or public input.