I think you know, the State of Colorado, Colorado Springs community and our congressional delegation fought hard to get one of the Grow the Army brigades to be based at Fort Carson.

In your view, have these regional partnerships been helpful in ensuring long-range sustainability?

section 951 of the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2008 directed DOD to consider the effect of climate change on DOD facilities, capabilities, and missions

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

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

I hope we can harness that excitement and that affection, that love for these national parks that exist in all the communities around every national park.

The Subcommittee on National Parks meets to discuss the President's budget proposal for the National Park Service.

So a start, but less than 10 percent of the need that you've----

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Is it fair to say that some of the work that is done is really project directed and driven?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 thank the ranking member for his remarks. We had an excellent working relation in the House of Representatives.

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.