I am absolutely opposed to the eliminate of blanket permits for temporary logging entrance.  I feel the current system serves logger, landowner, the forest products industry and the citizens of Virginia well.  Creating more state bureaucracy, which is time consuming and potential expenses in term of manpower hours by the applicant and the state personnel processing the application is not benefincial to anyone.  Forest landowners, generally do not harvest on a given acre but once or twice in a 30- 35 year period.  During this 30 - 35 year period, they paying real estate taxes yearly, providing clean air and water to all Virginian, and using none to vey little county or state resources.  They should not have to pay a fee to use the public highways to sell the one crop they been producing for 30 to 35 years. 

Permanently established highway entrance points should not require a fee every time a log truck use them.  One large blocks of land, these access points my be used yearly.  It's not right for the state to charge a fee it these for each time the entrance is used.

I can see the value in VDOT involvement in establishing new entrance point from a safety standpoint.  But I also believe landowners should have access to public highway's for harvesting their timber.   

Not only are landowners paying real estate taxes yearly,  but they also paying income taxes on the sell of  their timber resources.  The logger's are paying annual taxes on his equipment, and numerous taxes on his log trucks.  I do not believe landowner's, logger's and the forest products need another tax, even if it is a user fee.