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Rick Lazio: “Mr. Speaker, I would like for my colleagues to visualize for a moment Yellowstone National Park. It is truly one of…”

On the recordMay 9, 2000
Mr. Speaker, I would like for my colleagues to visualize for a moment Yellowstone National Park. It is truly one of America's great jewels. Conservation managers at that park agonize over the impact of 3 million visitors that come annually to experience its beauty. They worry about the health of its sensitive ecosystems. They agonize about the stresses that this population influx puts on the system. Now, I would like my colleagues to visualize that park with 8 million people living directly on its borders, with another 15 million living within 50 miles of it. I do not need to spell out the stresses that this situation would place on this natural system.
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Rick Lazio
New York
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Discussing the environmental impact of population growth near Yellowstone National Park.

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