For national landmarks, we look more for restoration. This one crossed the line in terms of too much renovation.
In a park, you can come in, take pictures and leave. But a preserve has a multiplicity of purposes.
The Burial Ground Monument is the latest National Park unit created to commemorate an historical tragedy.
The park service has had a just-say-no policy.
This isn't about giving up 20 percent of your resources. It's ... making sure the mission comes first. They'll continue to have the resources they have.
We have over 400 parks and field offices nationwide, and she hasn't even been to half of them.
They were free to talk about what they were doing in their fliers, but we did not put their bull's-eye insignia on the Washington Monument.
We don't see this as a budget exercise. It's about management excellence.
We're suffering from the same societal problems that most urban areas are.
We haven't been looking at new technologies and other things because we were concerned about impairment. Now we're looking at how Americans are changing how they recreate.
