Lawmakers slam fed plan to charge $1,500 photograph fee on public lands

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Lawmakers say they’re going to fight the Forest Service over a new plan to impose a special permit use fee of $1,500 for journalists, filmmakers and even tourists who want to take pictures on federal wilderness lands for revenue-raising purposes. Under the agency’s new plan, journalists would have to tell the Forest Service what their story…