Ken Salazar: “We appreciate the support of this subcommittee for our priorities including the America's Great Outdoors Initiative.”

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.

We will do everything we can because it is highest priority for the President of the United States and for me to move forward.

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.

We can't allow this to happen.