Malcolm Wallop: “The situation has changed, the national parks are enormously popular--and indeed they are. One of the reasons they are…”

“The situation has changed, the national parks are enormously popular--and indeed they are. One of the reasons they are enormously popular is because of the visitor facilities that have been provided under the Concessions Act. The type of concession, of which the Senator spoke, is generally speaking the largest hotels, the largest kinds of operations, which have the ability to absorb some of the increased visitorship. The average concession is not such a thing. They work, indeed, under the control of and direction of the park superintendent and the National Park Service. So they cannot, if visitorship quadruples, they cannot put an extra 40 boats on the river if they are now running 10. They are limited in the responses they can have. I have to say I am going to go to Utah and do my banking where I can find bankers who do not insist on collateral. Every time I go to the bank for a loan, notwithstanding the business plan, they tie up my ranch, they tie up my house, they tie up my family cars, they tie up anything they can get their hands on. And I have been in the habit of being successful in the businesses--not always, but generally--in the businesses I have undertaken.”