The U.S. Forest Service Wants to Fine You $1,000 for Taking Pictures in the Forest - Esquire

UPDATE: After the outcry, the Forest Service backs off.Nice photo. That'll be $1,000, please.  This week's most profoundly wrongheaded display of nonviolent press infringement comes from an unlikely source: The U.S. Forest Service. New rules being finalized in November state that—across this country's gloriously beautiful, endlessly photogenic, 36 million acres of designated wilderness area administered by the USFS—members of the press who happen upon it will need permits to photo…