If I still lived in So. Oregon, I'd be burning through more than a few batteries on National Forest land per this doc:
http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3845323.pd
NOTICE: In the United States ALL NATIONAL PARKS AND FORESTS ARE NO FLY ZONES. National Parks were the first to set these rules, and they'll fine you (if they catch you). The same laws make flying over ANY Federally-controlled parks, reserves and monuments ILLEGAL! That's U.S. law folks. Yeah, is sucks! And why? Because of a few fools who made everyone care about plastic toy multi-rotors buzzing around.
State parks are all fair game, but the BLM Lands are another story. Technically (I believe, but don't quote me) you'd be fine...and who is going to be hanging out to 'catch' you anyway. However, the BLM are a bunch of old title-touting geologist/archaeolgist/anthropologist politicians who all benefit when they make some sort of stink. NO ONE wants to take responsibility for anything that will l not benefit their personal careers in govt., so don't count on these people being open-minded. If you fly over BLM land, PLEASE...don't fly stupid! Don't ruin it for the rest of us, OK?
Technically, since almost alined in the US is owned either privately, or by the Federal Government, we only have a few places we can fly without intervention...VERY few. This means, fly safely, quietly, and responsibly.
ALL aerial camera systems are potentially strategic weapons. This paranoid government is highly sensitive to anyone who might gain a technological advantage over their own tools of war, so why do you THINK there is so much federal interest in where and how we fly? It's not really about crashing commercial aircraft...is it? Be smart.
This forum represents the BEST of freelance UAS operators, so it will likely Not be one of us who causes someone to enact even more laws. However, we should also take time to educate those who listen to propaganda, on the basic facts. The first thing I do, when someone stops to chat while I am flying, is to correct their (inevitable) use of the word "Drone." I tell them this is media hype/government propaganda. These are multi-rotor plastic helicopters...toys with cameras, not military weapons. THOSE "people-killing weapons platforms, paid for by TAX DOLLARS...those are "DRONES."
They usually walk away nodding their heads, but at some point they might actually connect few neurons–via a new dendritic branch–and realize that these are no threat, and are not being used to peek over their fence at their wife in the bathtub! They'll never care about total surveillance by their own government, but you looking over the fence, scares them. Go figure?
However, ONE FOOL can make all of our good work and public affairs work pointless. So, let's hope intelligence and responsibility trumps stupid!
