Originally Posted by
dankearl
Sandy,
This is just grandstanding by an idiot member of congress.
The proposal by the National park service was put out last September, misrepresented by an Idiot at my hometown newspaper and jumped on by bloggers everywhere.
The proposal to require permits was only for federal wilderness areas, not national parks.
It was only for commercial filming, in other words, commercials, not photographers in general.
Wilderness areas are off limit to vehicles and commercial filming generally requires transport of equipment and the park service wants to make sure that larger commercial ventures are not being done in protected areas.
That is it.
The usual internet uproar over nothing from the usual anti government crowd and a congressman seeking headlines.