Hood River County is closing in on establishing a parking permit system for trail staging areas. County Commission Chair Mike Oates says both forest and trail advisory committees have been meeting to establish the system, which would provide funding for maintaining a trail system to replace a donation the County received from a company that installed a fiber optic line on County lands. Oates hopes it can generate around $75,000 to help cover the costs that includes a full-time trails administrator to keep the recreation uses available. Oates would like the permit system to be ready for next summer.