Comments for NFH ACTION BLOG http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership Save Our Cabins Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:51:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on 25 Co-sponsors on H.R. 4888 by mschwebke http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=375&cpage=1#comment-30 mschwebke Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:51:38 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=375#comment-30 All of NFH's Oregon members ought to send thank you emails or snailmail to Congressman Wu. Wu's Mailing Address: 818 SW 3rd Ave., #1182 Portland, OR 97204 Use his "letters to the editor" function on his website to thank him! http://www.wuforcongress.com/lettertoeditor.php - Mark Schwebke Mt Hood FHA All of NFH’s Oregon members ought to send thank you emails or snailmail to Congressman Wu.
Wu’s Mailing Address:
818 SW 3rd Ave., #1182
Portland, OR 97204

Use his “letters to the editor” function on his website to thank him!
http://www.wuforcongress.com/lettertoeditor.php

- Mark Schwebke
Mt Hood FHA

]]> Comment on C2 & Cabin Owners Attend Wyden Hearing by NFH ACTION BLOG» Blog Archive » C2 & Cabin Owners Attend Wyden Hearing » BLOG, Lake, Cabin, Archive, Owners, Wyden » Cabin Features http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=337&cpage=1#comment-29 NFH ACTION BLOG» Blog Archive » C2 & Cabin Owners Attend Wyden Hearing » BLOG, Lake, Cabin, Archive, Owners, Wyden » Cabin Features Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:53:49 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=337#comment-29 [...] as east-side Oregon forests. By simply signing in as a cabin … Go here to see a original: NFH ACTION BLOG» Blog Archive » C2 & Cabin Owners Attend Wyden Hearing Share and [...] [...] as east-side Oregon forests. By simply signing in as a cabin … Go here to see a original: NFH ACTION BLOG» Blog Archive » C2 & Cabin Owners Attend Wyden Hearing Share and [...]

]]> Comment on Moving the CFA Forward in D.C. by Meridian Boundary Blaze 65 Percent Contained | Custom made suit http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=310&cpage=1#comment-27 Meridian Boundary Blaze 65 Percent Contained | Custom made suit Thu, 20 May 2010 17:18:01 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=310#comment-27 [...] NFH ACTION BLOG» Blog Archive » Moving the CFA Forward in D.C. [...] [...] NFH ACTION BLOG» Blog Archive » Moving the CFA Forward in D.C. [...]

]]> Comment on CFA Hearing Day in D.C. by Betsey Thornton http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=230&cpage=1#comment-26 Betsey Thornton Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:27:29 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=230#comment-26 Great work by the entire team! We just listened to the hearing on http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=54&extmode=view&extid=347. What a work out - but the committee seemed to get your message. Betsey Thornton Great work by the entire team! We just listened to the hearing on http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=54&extmode=view&extid=347. What a work out – but the committee seemed to get your message. Betsey Thornton

]]> Comment on CFA Hearing Day in D.C. by tomaglow http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=230&cpage=1#comment-25 tomaglow Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:53:25 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=230#comment-25 The Natural Resources Committee has posted the audio from today's hearing on their website at http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=32&extmode=view&extid=347. The Natural Resources Committee has posted the audio from today’s hearing on their website at http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=32&extmode=view&extid=347.

]]> Comment on A NEW DAY FOR NFH by winegar family http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=29&cpage=1#comment-24 winegar family Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:03:47 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=29#comment-24 CAN YOU PLEASE HELP? WE NEED TO KNOW: 1. DO YOU HAVE A CONVENTIAL WATER WELL ON YOUR FOREST SERVICE PROPERTY? 2.DID YOU HAVE IT DRILLED? 3.HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN IN? 4.IN WHAT STATE ARE YOU LOCATED? OUR LOCAL RANGER AUTHORITY IS LEADING US TO BELIEVE THAT THIS MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE. OUR EXSISTING SPRING\CISTERN SYSTEM IS FAILING. WE HAVE OBTAINED ALL THE NECESSARY LOCAL AND STATE PERMITS NECESSARY FOR A RESIDENTAL WELL. WINNFM2@AOL.COM BOISE , IDAHO CAN YOU PLEASE HELP? WE NEED TO KNOW:
1. DO YOU HAVE A CONVENTIAL WATER WELL ON YOUR FOREST SERVICE PROPERTY?
2.DID YOU HAVE IT DRILLED?
3.HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN IN?
4.IN WHAT STATE ARE YOU LOCATED?
OUR LOCAL RANGER AUTHORITY IS LEADING US TO BELIEVE THAT THIS MAY NOT
BE POSSIBLE. OUR EXSISTING SPRING\CISTERN SYSTEM IS FAILING. WE HAVE OBTAINED ALL THE NECESSARY LOCAL AND STATE PERMITS NECESSARY FOR A
RESIDENTAL WELL. WINNFM2@AOL.COM BOISE , IDAHO

]]> Comment on Sept. 25 – Day 3 for C2 in D.C. by ShastaCabin http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=100&cpage=1#comment-21 ShastaCabin Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:04:12 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=100#comment-21 Having just received our bill for the year, I can't tell you how disappointed I am in the FS. We received a "supplemental" 2009 bill, in the very last week of 2009, which was essentially a 100% increase for 2009. Then they sent the 2010 bill, which was now complying with the law , by not raising our 2010 fee by any more than 25% of our 2009 fee. These people make me sick! Then they made it clear that the fee's were based on the 1990 estimated cabin values and that by next year the new fees will be based on the latest 2008 appraisal. Which for our cabin group as I recall, was about 75% higher. So imagine what that bill in 2011 is going to look like? They may have gotten their wish and killed several cabins on Lake Shasta, if not a majority of them in the near future. Our cabin group has no road access, and over the last 4 years, limited water access. We had to spend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars last year to become permit compliant. (How much of that was necessary is clearly debatable!) Now it is going to cost us several thousand dollars a year for the "right" or "lottery" to gain access and use our cabin during an ever shrinking window of opportunity. I know for a fact that every member of our cabin group is currently retired, on a fixed income, unemployed, underemployed or working there ass of to keep up! I think the FS idea is that everyone who owns a cabin must be rich, and therefore can afford whatever it takes to keep it, might just create that very outcome! I'm sure there are plenty of rich people out there with very nice cabins, but that isn't us or many of the cabins I'm around. Ours is four walls and a roof. A simple septic and water system. 800 square feet in the middle of the woods that requires yearly attention and maintenance. But of course it goes back several generations for some of us and is one place where we can maintain a healthy lifestyle and connect to childhood memories. As far as cabin sales go, no cabin has been sold for the appraised value the FS says it's worth. 1/3 of the cabins just barely passed the permit process and owners haven't been using them for years. They have told me an attempt to sell them with no takers. Not only no takers but no interest. They are stuck with them until they give them away or things change very far in the future. The increase in fee's are just an added slap in the face during hard times for a cabin they can use or sell. And for what? We have no amenities! We use nothing! The FS doesn't have to spend a dime on us except to inspect the cabins once a year. And prior to last years permit process....hadn't even done that in the five years before! Who is going to buy a cabin in the future unless its nice enough, with year-around access, and continues to rise in value? Only people rich enough to! Having just received our bill for the year, I can’t tell you how disappointed I am in the FS. We received a “supplemental” 2009 bill, in the very last week of 2009, which was essentially a 100% increase for 2009. Then they sent the 2010 bill, which was now complying with the law , by not raising our 2010 fee by any more than 25% of our 2009 fee. These people make me sick! Then they made it clear that the fee’s were based on the 1990 estimated cabin values and that by next year the new fees will be based on the latest 2008 appraisal. Which for our cabin group as I recall, was about 75% higher. So imagine what that bill in 2011 is going to look like?
They may have gotten their wish and killed several cabins on Lake Shasta, if not a majority of them in the near future. Our cabin group has no road access, and over the last 4 years, limited water access. We had to spend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars last year to become permit compliant. (How much of that was necessary is clearly debatable!) Now it is going to cost us several thousand dollars a year for the “right” or “lottery” to gain access and use our cabin during an ever shrinking window of opportunity. I know for a fact that every member of our cabin group is currently retired, on a fixed income, unemployed, underemployed or working there ass of to keep up! I think the FS idea is that everyone who owns a cabin must be rich, and therefore can afford whatever it takes to keep it, might just create that very outcome! I’m sure there are plenty of rich people out there with very nice cabins, but that isn’t us or many of the cabins I’m around. Ours is four walls and a roof. A simple septic and water system. 800 square feet in the middle of the woods that requires yearly attention and maintenance. But of course it goes back several generations for some of us and is one place where we can maintain a healthy lifestyle and connect to childhood memories.
As far as cabin sales go, no cabin has been sold for the appraised value the FS says it’s worth. 1/3 of the cabins just barely passed the permit process and owners haven’t been using them for years. They have told me an attempt to sell them with no takers. Not only no takers but no interest. They are stuck with them until they give them away or things change very far in the future. The increase in fee’s are just an added slap in the face during hard times for a cabin they can use or sell. And for what? We have no amenities! We use nothing! The FS doesn’t have to spend a dime on us except to inspect the cabins once a year. And prior to last years permit process….hadn’t even done that in the five years before! Who is going to buy a cabin in the future unless its nice enough, with year-around access, and continues to rise in value? Only people rich enough to!

]]> Comment on Moratorium Status by ShastaCabin http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=166&cpage=1#comment-20 ShastaCabin Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:02:45 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=166#comment-20 Having just received our bill for the year, I can't tell you how disappointed I am in the FS. We received a "supplemental" 2009 bill, in the very last week of 2009, which was essentially a 100% increase for 2009. Then they sent the 2010 bill, which was now complying with the law , by not raising our 2010 fee by any more than 25% of our 2009 fee. These people make me sick! Then they made it clear that the fee's were based on the 1990 estimated cabin values and that by next year the new fees will be based on the latest 2008 appraisal. Which for our cabin group as I recall, was about 75% higher. So imagine what that bill in 2011 is going to look like? They may have gotten their wish and killed several cabins on Lake Shasta, if not a majority of them in the near future. Our cabin group has no road access, and over the last 4 years, limited water access. We had to spend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars last year to become permit compliant. (How much of that was necessary is clearly debatable!) Now it is going to cost us several thousand dollars a year for the "right" or "lottery" to gain access and use our cabin during an ever shrinking window of opportunity. I know for a fact that every member of our cabin group is currently retired, on a fixed income, unemployed, underemployed or working there ass of to keep up! I think the FS idea is that everyone who owns a cabin must be rich, and therefore can afford whatever it takes to keep it, might just create that very outcome! I'm sure there are plenty of rich people out there with very nice cabins, but that isn't us or many of the cabins I'm around. Ours is four walls and a roof. A simple septic and water system. 800 square feet in the middle of the woods that requires yearly attention and maintenance. But of course it goes back several generations for some of us and is one place where we can maintain a healthy lifestyle and connect to childhood memories. As far as cabin sales go, no cabin has been sold for the appraised value the FS says it's worth. 1/3 of the cabins just barely passed the permit process and owners haven't been using them for years. They have told me an attempt to sell them with no takers. Not only no takers but no interest. They are stuck with them until they give them away or things change very far in the future. The increase in fee's are just an added slap in the face during hard times for a cabin they can use or sell. And for what? We have no amenities! We use nothing! The FS doesn't have to spend a dime on us except to inspect the cabins once a year. And prior to last years permit process....hadn't even done that in the five years before! Who is going to buy a cabin in the future unless its nice enough, with year-around access, and continues to rise in value? Only people rich enough to! Having just received our bill for the year, I can’t tell you how disappointed I am in the FS. We received a “supplemental” 2009 bill, in the very last week of 2009, which was essentially a 100% increase for 2009. Then they sent the 2010 bill, which was now complying with the law , by not raising our 2010 fee by any more than 25% of our 2009 fee. These people make me sick! Then they made it clear that the fee’s were based on the 1990 estimated cabin values and that by next year the new fees will be based on the latest 2008 appraisal. Which for our cabin group as I recall, was about 75% higher. So imagine what that bill in 2011 is going to look like?
They may have gotten their wish and killed several cabins on Lake Shasta, if not a majority of them in the near future. Our cabin group has no road access, and over the last 4 years, limited water access. We had to spend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars last year to become permit compliant. (How much of that was necessary is clearly debatable!) Now it is going to cost us several thousand dollars a year for the “right” or “lottery” to gain access and use our cabin during an ever shrinking window of opportunity. I know for a fact that every member of our cabin group is currently retired, on a fixed income, unemployed, underemployed or working there ass of to keep up! I think the FS idea is that everyone who owns a cabin must be rich, and therefore can afford whatever it takes to keep it, might just create that very outcome! I’m sure there are plenty of rich people out there with very nice cabins, but that isn’t us or many of the cabins I’m around. Ours is four walls and a roof. A simple septic and water system. 800 square feet in the middle of the woods that requires yearly attention and maintenance. But of course it goes back several generations for some of us and is one place where we can maintain a healthy lifestyle and connect to childhood memories.
As far as cabin sales go, no cabin has been sold for the appraised value the FS says it’s worth. 1/3 of the cabins just barely passed the permit process and owners haven’t been using them for years. They have told me an attempt to sell them with no takers. Not only no takers but no interest. They are stuck with them until they give them away or things change very far in the future. The increase in fee’s are just an added slap in the face during hard times for a cabin they can use or sell. And for what? We have no amenities! We use nothing! The FS doesn’t have to spend a dime on us except to inspect the cabins once a year. And prior to last years permit process….hadn’t even done that in the five years before! Who is going to buy a cabin in the future unless its nice enough, with year-around access, and continues to rise in value? Only people rich enough to!

]]> Comment on Moratorium has been signed by ShastaCabin http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=167&cpage=1#comment-19 ShastaCabin Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:02:26 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=167#comment-19 Having just received our bill for the year, I can't tell you how disappointed I am in the FS. We received a "supplemental" 2009 bill, in the very last week of 2009, which was essentially a 100% increase for 2009. Then they sent the 2010 bill, which was now complying with the law , by not raising our 2010 fee by any more than 25% of our 2009 fee. These people make me sick! Then they made it clear that the fee's were based on the 1990 estimated cabin values and that by next year the new fees will be based on the latest 2008 appraisal. Which for our cabin group as I recall, was about 75% higher. So imagine what that bill in 2011 is going to look like? They may have gotten their wish and killed several cabins on Lake Shasta, if not a majority of them in the near future. Our cabin group has no road access, and over the last 4 years, limited water access. We had to spend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars last year to become permit compliant. (How much of that was necessary is clearly debatable!) Now it is going to cost us several thousand dollars a year for the "right" or "lottery" to gain access and use our cabin during an ever shrinking window of opportunity. I know for a fact that every member of our cabin group is currently retired, on a fixed income, unemployed, underemployed or working there ass of to keep up! I think the FS idea is that everyone who owns a cabin must be rich, and therefore can afford whatever it takes to keep it, might just create that very outcome! I'm sure there are plenty of rich people out there with very nice cabins, but that isn't us or many of the cabins I'm around. Ours is four walls and a roof. A simple septic and water system. 800 square feet in the middle of the woods that requires yearly attention and maintenance. But of course it goes back several generations for some of us and is one place where we can maintain a healthy lifestyle and connect to childhood memories. As far as cabin sales go, no cabin has been sold for the appraised value the FS says it's worth. 1/3 of the cabins just barely passed the permit process and owners haven't been using them for years. They have told me an attempt to sell them with no takers. Not only no takers but no interest. They are stuck with them until they give them away or things change very far in the future. The increase in fee's are just an added slap in the face during hard times for a cabin they can use or sell. And for what? We have no amenities! We use nothing! The FS doesn't have to spend a dime on us except to inspect the cabins once a year. And prior to last years permit process....hadn't even done that in the five years before! Who is going to buy a cabin in the future unless its nice enough, with year-around access, and continues to rise in value? Only people rich enough to! Having just received our bill for the year, I can’t tell you how disappointed I am in the FS. We received a “supplemental” 2009 bill, in the very last week of 2009, which was essentially a 100% increase for 2009. Then they sent the 2010 bill, which was now complying with the law , by not raising our 2010 fee by any more than 25% of our 2009 fee. These people make me sick! Then they made it clear that the fee’s were based on the 1990 estimated cabin values and that by next year the new fees will be based on the latest 2008 appraisal. Which for our cabin group as I recall, was about 75% higher. So imagine what that bill in 2011 is going to look like?
They may have gotten their wish and killed several cabins on Lake Shasta, if not a majority of them in the near future. Our cabin group has no road access, and over the last 4 years, limited water access. We had to spend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars last year to become permit compliant. (How much of that was necessary is clearly debatable!) Now it is going to cost us several thousand dollars a year for the “right” or “lottery” to gain access and use our cabin during an ever shrinking window of opportunity. I know for a fact that every member of our cabin group is currently retired, on a fixed income, unemployed, underemployed or working there ass of to keep up! I think the FS idea is that everyone who owns a cabin must be rich, and therefore can afford whatever it takes to keep it, might just create that very outcome! I’m sure there are plenty of rich people out there with very nice cabins, but that isn’t us or many of the cabins I’m around. Ours is four walls and a roof. A simple septic and water system. 800 square feet in the middle of the woods that requires yearly attention and maintenance. But of course it goes back several generations for some of us and is one place where we can maintain a healthy lifestyle and connect to childhood memories.
As far as cabin sales go, no cabin has been sold for the appraised value the FS says it’s worth. 1/3 of the cabins just barely passed the permit process and owners haven’t been using them for years. They have told me an attempt to sell them with no takers. Not only no takers but no interest. They are stuck with them until they give them away or things change very far in the future. The increase in fee’s are just an added slap in the face during hard times for a cabin they can use or sell. And for what? We have no amenities! We use nothing! The FS doesn’t have to spend a dime on us except to inspect the cabins once a year. And prior to last years permit process….hadn’t even done that in the five years before! Who is going to buy a cabin in the future unless its nice enough, with year-around access, and continues to rise in value? Only people rich enough to!

]]> Comment on COALITION 2 UPDATE by ShastaCabin http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=168&cpage=1#comment-18 ShastaCabin Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:01:53 +0000 http://nationalforesthomeowners.org/leadership/?p=168#comment-18 Having just received our bill for the year, I can't tell you how disappointed I am in the FS. We received a "supplemental" 2009 bill, in the very last week of 2009, which was essentially a 100% increase for 2009. Then they sent the 2010 bill, which was now complying with the law , by not raising our 2010 fee by any more than 25% of our 2009 fee. These people make me sick! Then they made it clear that the fee's were based on the 1990 estimated cabin values and that by next year the new fees will be based on the latest 2008 appraisal. Which for our cabin group as I recall, was about 75% higher. So imagine what that bill in 2011 is going to look like? They may have gotten their wish and killed several cabins on Lake Shasta, if not a majority of them in the near future. Our cabin group has no road access, and over the last 4 years, limited water access. We had to spend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars last year to become permit compliant. (How much of that was necessary is clearly debatable!) Now it is going to cost us several thousand dollars a year for the "right" or "lottery" to gain access and use our cabin during an ever shrinking window of opportunity. I know for a fact that every member of our cabin group is currently retired, on a fixed income, unemployed, underemployed or working there ass of to keep up! I think the FS idea is that everyone who owns a cabin must be rich, and therefore can afford whatever it takes to keep it, might just create that very outcome! I'm sure there are plenty of rich people out there with very nice cabins, but that isn't us or many of the cabins I'm around. Ours is four walls and a roof. A simple septic and water system. 800 square feet in the middle of the woods that requires yearly attention and maintenance. But of course it goes back several generations for some of us and is one place where we can maintain a healthy lifestyle and connect to childhood memories. As far as cabin sales go, no cabin has been sold for the appraised value the FS says it's worth. 1/3 of the cabins just barely passed the permit process and owners haven't been using them for years. They have told me an attempt to sell them with no takers. Not only no takers but no interest. They are stuck with them until they give them away or things change very far in the future. The increase in fee's are just an added slap in the face during hard times for a cabin they can use or sell. And for what? We have no amenities! We use nothing! The FS doesn't have to spend a dime on us except to inspect the cabins once a year. And prior to last years permit process....hadn't even done that in the five years before! Who is going to buy a cabin in the future unless its nice enough, with year-around access, and continues to rise in value? Only people rich enough to! Having just received our bill for the year, I can’t tell you how disappointed I am in the FS. We received a “supplemental” 2009 bill, in the very last week of 2009, which was essentially a 100% increase for 2009. Then they sent the 2010 bill, which was now complying with the law , by not raising our 2010 fee by any more than 25% of our 2009 fee. These people make me sick! Then they made it clear that the fee’s were based on the 1990 estimated cabin values and that by next year the new fees will be based on the latest 2008 appraisal. Which for our cabin group as I recall, was about 75% higher. So imagine what that bill in 2011 is going to look like?
They may have gotten their wish and killed several cabins on Lake Shasta, if not a majority of them in the near future. Our cabin group has no road access, and over the last 4 years, limited water access. We had to spend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars last year to become permit compliant. (How much of that was necessary is clearly debatable!) Now it is going to cost us several thousand dollars a year for the “right” or “lottery” to gain access and use our cabin during an ever shrinking window of opportunity. I know for a fact that every member of our cabin group is currently retired, on a fixed income, unemployed, underemployed or working there ass of to keep up! I think the FS idea is that everyone who owns a cabin must be rich, and therefore can afford whatever it takes to keep it, might just create that very outcome! I’m sure there are plenty of rich people out there with very nice cabins, but that isn’t us or many of the cabins I’m around. Ours is four walls and a roof. A simple septic and water system. 800 square feet in the middle of the woods that requires yearly attention and maintenance. But of course it goes back several generations for some of us and is one place where we can maintain a healthy lifestyle and connect to childhood memories.
As far as cabin sales go, no cabin has been sold for the appraised value the FS says it’s worth. 1/3 of the cabins just barely passed the permit process and owners haven’t been using them for years. They have told me an attempt to sell them with no takers. Not only no takers but no interest. They are stuck with them until they give them away or things change very far in the future. The increase in fee’s are just an added slap in the face during hard times for a cabin they can use or sell. And for what? We have no amenities! We use nothing! The FS doesn’t have to spend a dime on us except to inspect the cabins once a year. And prior to last years permit process….hadn’t even done that in the five years before! Who is going to buy a cabin in the future unless its nice enough, with year-around access, and continues to rise in value? Only people rich enough to!

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