It's easier to find a place to park your car. For those who are interested in camping or finding lodging in the area, it's often easier to plan a trip on shorter notice to some of these places.
If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
It's a very lightly visited wilderness park, so people who are specifically interested in getting away from it all can really get away from it all in Isle Royale.
I think everyone ? animal or human ? who is used to this area knows we can get these occasional warm stretches. No one who has spent any time here is foolish enough to believe that spring has arrived.
Some of these places may not be as familiar, they are not going to be as heavily visited, which means that you and several fewer people are going to be exploring them this summer.
We don't know at this point what caused the accident.
Certainly you have a greater opportunity to get to know these places on a more intimate basis. You're not competing with as many other people to see and to do and to go.
Certainly, we look forward to a day when we're able to put the planning process behind us and have a resolution that provides for a wide range of appropriate winter use in the parks.
We've had some warm days here, and it rained much of Tuesday. We had a fair amount of snowmelt at the lower elevations.
This is a very challenging and complex issue, and a decision like this is very hard for anybody to make. It's the right decision, but that doesn't mean it's an easy decision.
