The green mountain is the visitation at Yellowstone. The red dotted line is staff levels.
Angus King
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Angus Stanley King is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Maine since January 3, 2013. A member of the Independent party, King previously held the position of Governor of Maine from January 4, 1995, to January 8, 2003. Throughout his political career, he has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and renewable energy, often advocating for bipartisan solutions to complex problems. King is known for his moderate stance and willingness to work across party lines.
we want visitation to our national parks, but we do not want the visitation itself to impair the experience of the national parks, or the park itself.
Can we think about that policy in terms of promoting the lesser-used national parks?
However, at the same time, we must recognize that overcrowding in the parks itself can degrade the natural resources and wildlife that these units are designed to protect.
The law of supply and demand doesn't apply here. The demand is there but we can't just go out and build more Glacier Parks.
Does that have a feature like Waze, the app that tells you where the congestion is?
Thank you. I think the result of what you are saying is that more study is necessary to examine unintended consequences.
I think what's going on is accurately characterized as atrocious and genocide.
Eighty-five percent of the targets in cyber space are in the private sector.
We are the most wired country in the world; that is good. But we are also the most vulnerable country in the world.
This is a potential nightmare, but it is one that we can wake up from if indeed we wake up.
We've all thought of conflict over a thousand years as armies against armies, navies against navies. But now with the advent of cyber warfare, the private sector is the front line.
This security clearance problem is a serious problem. It's a national security issue because in my view the biggest problem is lost opportunity.
I rise to talk about a moral obligation and a national security obligation. We are leaving Afghanistan after 20 years, the longest war in the country's history. During the entirety of that 20 years, there were brave people in…
So if there were more commercial, market-based policies being applied in our forests, we'd have a healthier forest, would we not?
30 percent of the forest land in America is federal. 70 percent of acreage burned last year was on federal land. There's something wrong here.
I appreciate your extraordinary service and your straightforward testimony here today.
One of the things I have learned in studying the issues of the forest is that a growing forest sequesters more carbon than a mature forest.
I am introducing legislation to have a Blue Ribbon Commission to examine the inventory process to see if it needs to be changed.
So I think from a point of view of carbon, if greater harvesting... can actually contribute to the sequestration of carbon.





