I brought that passion, interest, over here to the Senate.

I look forward to working with him here on this important subcommittee.

The designation of most of Rocky Mountain National Park as wilderness, ending a more than 30-year effort to achieve that designation.

But I think this is something we can't let continue to just bounce along because of the needs you outlined.

Not insignificant. Why we continue to look into this issue.

I support this if this is in fact the case, that you undertake this mission in part to recruit potential future employees.

Is it fair to suggest that some of the work, if not most of the work, that would be undertaken in the climate change initiative is in addition on to what you're biologists and your scientists are already doing in understanding ecosystems…

I think it'd be fair to have the record show that Secretary Salazar has a deep commitment to youth activities and to youth recruitment.

Do you think this is limiting your ability to engage youth?

I think you talked generally about working with the other agencies within the Department of Interior. Coordination is going to be critical.

There has been an effort to pass Good Samaritan legislation that would provide ways in which volunteers and non-profits could help do that work in a very cost effective way.

I think it's good to have a Senator from Wyoming here.

So this is $300 million of private money ready to be matched with $300 million of public money to upgrade and construct facilities?

I look forward to working with him. Perhaps he and I could exchange visits to some of the best park units in the whole country.

Many traditional programs of this type are fairly long in the time commitment demand, often at 12 weeks.

I'm frustrated that we rarely, if ever, actually direct all those Land and Water Conservation Funds into the purposes for which they were originally designed.

I think it calls for a--and I'm editorializing, but for direct funding.

I hope as we think about the legislation we put that in the forefront of our minds, that we want to create a set of incentives and disincentives that lead people to think broadly about these issues across various sectors.