The "overuse" premise they are using to spearhead this through is ridiculous, you are talking about a few thousand people a day (being extremely generous) climbing around on a thousands of square miles of rocks. Animals and weather are responsible for much more "degradation" than humans will ever be, one of the tree hugging wilderness police told me I could not camp within 50 feet of a "lake", but horses can be tethered near water do they can drink, how much more damage does a horse cause over a human ? Humans also use these areas about 4 months a year as well - this needs to be stopped, call the bloated US Forest Service now.