If the state and goverment didnt nix their grants and additional funds to the blm then the fees would have stayed the same. HOWEVER since they (BLM) are not getting any additional funding this needs to be made up somewhere else ie the pass's.. Its not because they are out to screw you its because they have no money to staff the place and keep dumont running the way people have expected it with sherrifs and ems crew and so on and so forth.. If you think the fee's are a crock write to the state and ask them why they didnt give blm any additional funds this year to help run the place... If they would have left the fee's the same then you would have seen a substantial decrees in law enforcement, ems crews, and possibly camp hosts to keep dumont clean.. then you would be bitching about that.. If the state grants additional funding next year the plan is to drop the fee's again but that is all dependendent on the state and goverment..