“From January to September 2022, permit fees for The Wave amounted to $958,020. Of this amount, Recreation.gov made $487,180. The park? $470,840.”
The Wave lottery costs $9 to enter, and $5 of it goes to Recreation.gov, run by Booz Allen Hamilton. The BLM gets $4 per application and a $9 per-person fee only from winners, and only 3% of applicants win. A $12 billion military contractor out-earned the Bureau of Land Management on access to its own land. Public lands, private toll booth.