RV Daily Report

(Feb. 11, 2013) -- The Olympia reports an idea put forward last week in Washington is a four-year diversion of money to parks from a tax on grocery items that is meant for litter cleanup and recycling programs.

(Feb.11, 2013) -- Eastern National, a not-for-profit cooperating association with the National Park Service, announces the winners of its annual awards for 2012.

(Feb. 11, 2013) -- While the latest winter snowstorm blacked out much of the Northeast, the Sunbury Daily Item reports the dusting the Valley received was a boon for Raymond B. Winter State Park’s Snow Fest in Pennsylvania.

(Feb. 11, 2013) -- For some Tennessee state parks, camping reservations can now be made in advance, reports the Kingsport Times News.

(Feb. 11, 2013) -- The N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation today announced that visitation at North Carolina’s state parks and state recreation areas continued at a record level in 2012, with 14.2 million visits, matching attendance levels set in 2009 and 2011.

(Feb. 11, 2013) -- In Tennessee, the Memphis city council voted this week to strip Nathan Bedford Forrest's name from a downtown park and call it Health Sciences Park.

(Feb. 11, 2013) -- The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit released the Environmental Assessment and decision for the William Kent Best Management Practices Retrofit and Administrative Site Redevelopment project. The proposed project now enters a 45-day decision appeal period. Proposed improvements in the campground would include relocation of the recreational vehicle waste dump station.

(Feb. 11, 2013) -- The Shawano Leader reports a Marion, Wis., campground owner facing felony counts of fraud, theft and sexual assault in Marathon County was charged last week with sexual assault of a child in Waupaca County.

(Feb. 11, 2013) -- In North Augusta, S.C., a county ordinance has been revised that could allow campers to return to a small RV park.

(Feb. 11, 2013) -- In Bahrain, campers will soon have to pay insurance as part of attempts to prevent people from dumping their rubbish, reports the Gulf Daily News.