Local Services Sustain Federal Public Lands By Ron Walter - - TopicsExpress

Local Services Sustain Federal Public Lands By Ron Walter - 09/16/14 07:03 PM EDT One afternoon this past July in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Billings and McKenzie counties, N.D., the temperature was 90 degrees, the humidity was 88 percent, and there was no wind. A 21-year-old man and two others, a 23-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man, were lost and dehydrated. After unsuccessful attempts to locate them, rescuers finally began to zero in on their location, dispatched a medical helicopter and prepared a landing zone. A county ambulance sat ready two miles away. During the operation, one of the first responders fainted due to heat exhaustion and dehydration. Throughout the day, the helicopter and county ambulance ferried seven ailing people from the park to the local hospital. By 10 p.m., a total of 25 people participated in successful search-and-rescue operations, including the ambulance crew, visitors, National Park Service employees and volunteers. Search-and-rescue efforts like this one don’t always grab headlines but occur all the time. With more than 280 million people visiting America’s national parks and other federal public lands each year, safety operations are an everyday necessity. And they are made possible by a program called Payment in Lieu of Taxes, or PILT. For nearly 40 years, the PILT program has provided funding to counties and other local governments to offset forgone tax revenue from federal land within their boundaries. Local governments are unable to tax the property values or products derived from federal lands, yet they still pay for services related to them, like searches and rescues, emergency medical care and fire protection. These county services — along with trash collection, roads and bridges, law enforcement, sewage systems and more — allow people to enjoy public lands. To read the entire article, follow the link below. thehill/opinion/op-ed/217953-local-services-sustain-federal-public-lands

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