I thank you, Dr. Coburn, for your interest in this issue, your interest in ensuring that we are on a path toward greater sustainability when it comes to the operation and maintenance of our national parks and our park system.

My time has expired. But you haven't addressed this financial sustainability test that you referenced. How does that work?

You've got to step up, and you've got to look, as I indicated, at real and creative approaches.

I was hiking through Klondike Gold Rush National Park some years ago.

I certainly don't support a moratorium on the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

Here's a chance to meet one of the country's economic needs and, in the years ahead, with a specific timetable, really get the Government out of the helium business.

I don't want to see the new Denali Visitors Center named the Verizon Center, and nothing wrong with Verizon.

I think it is important to recognize that we have seen some innovative things coming out of our parks.

I think we need to recognize that there are other ways to acquire land rather than just the Federal dollars coming from the Treasury.

Senator Murkowski, you so appreciate happening in Alaska right now.

I think Senator Coburn's statistics were really quite straightforward and, I think, very compelling.

I think that is huge for us. These are exactly the type of volunteer efforts that the Park service should be using and expanding upon.

I support many of those efforts.

We greatly appreciate Chairman Wyden's and Ranking Member Murkowski's recent agreement to include national park partnership funding.

the implications for not only the State of Alaska, that has a very strong, well-managed sustainable fisheries, is really quite concerned about the implications of this policy.

We all recognize that when you are thanked, it goes a long way to feeling good about what you have done.

The reality is we've got some very serious, I think, reform when it comes to how we handle our maintenance issues within our parks.

What I am willing to do is to change the guidelines so it includes Alaska wild caught fish. I think that's the simple fix here.

This is why the Administration's opposition and apparent disinterest in working with us on this bill strikes me as disingenuous.

We totally agree with you about development and goals for development.

It is not the intention of Senator Murkowski and I to diminish or decrease the funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

I hope that we will hear it admitted plainly.

I need to know that you are mindful and you listen and you understand to what is happening to our coastal States that are impacted.

I think it's important to recognize within this bill our effort to support clean energy and conservation projects.

It is only fair that they be similarly treated.