Re: your Sept. 14 article, “Portions of forest may be closed�:

The larger and more insidious aspect of this trend is the current administration’s push to privatize public lands by promoting private concessionaires and private, for-profit uses on public land. Congress consistently fails to adequately fund the U.S. Forest Service to maintain public facilities. The hidden agenda of many members of Congress is to “starve the beast� by underfunding public institutions, thereby turning more and more public land and facilities over to private entities to be run for profit rather than for the public good.