Ken Salazar: “Thank you very much, Chairman Bingaman and Ranking Member Domenici, for holding this hearing.”

By investing in our parks and promoting them to visitors, especially internationally, we can have the dual benefit of an improved National Park System and a stronger economy that produces more jobs.

The Department of Interior officially stated in its recent letter to Congress about the study that its preferred management option is the creation of a new, national historical park.

I do strongly believe the economic statistics which you use are absolutely correct.

The development of the atomic bomb in multiple locations across the United States is an important story and one of the most transformative events in our nation's history.