Bruce F. Vento: “I think a well-crafted law on concessions here, very prescriptive, not leaving a lot of room obviously could present…”

“I think a well-crafted law on concessions here, very prescriptive, not leaving a lot of room obviously could present some problems to any administrator, including Secretary of Interior Babbitt or his successors. But most of these laws are about as good as what the Secretary will really make them. So I think we have to be careful and I think operate in good faith with regard to what the meaning and intent is in this instance. There are special challenges facing our parks today, and I think that the park visitor, the park professionals, and the concessionaire, all share a responsibility in terms of preserving the corpus of that park, its natural and/or cultural resources at the same time providing for public enjoyment. Parks, of course, are threatened by the areas around them, the interface whether it is air and water quality, or even the land use activities that go on around outside their boundaries.”