Bill Wade Quotations

The facilities are really nice and this park seems more accommodating than others,

Regardless of what happens in redrafting, the Department of (the) Interior is going to do what it can to get (the Hoffman proposal) in there. It can only be public outcry and influence from Congress that can be brought to bear on this and make the effort to turn it back.

When I was a youngster, we could go up to the fire lookouts and see 100 miles into New Mexico. Ship Rock always stood out.

To allow that kind of thing just because a set of recreational users want to take snowmobiles and whatever else into Yellowstone is crazy,

The staffing is not good. The parks are deteriorating.

You see that every day in all kinds of public places, and the more that happens in parks, the less opportunity people have to get away from those things that they face in daily life.

They have ignored science, research and scholarly analysis in parks. They have ignored the preferences of the American people. We have little confidence that they will pay much attention to the comments currently being received from the public on the draft policies unless they are the comments they want to hear.

It's a shock. He's a nice guy -- my kids play with his kids.

The basic issue is trust, and frankly we have some concerns about the trust of the current leadership of the Interior Department and the National Park Service.

It very definitely is belt- tightening or more. We are in the process right now of surveying some parks to find out how the quality of park experiences and protection of resources are likely to be impacted, this summer and beyond.

They are working long shifts, and sometimes they wake up a few times a night out of a dead sleep and have to go full bore within minutes, ... That's very taxing on the body, particularly the heart.

These two tour operators have been leaders in a transition that is making Yellowstone National Park a safer, healthier, and more attractive winter destination for a wider variety of visitors.

If you're looking to trim it back to 80 percent of current funding, you're going to go below core operations.

In some small way, I'm doing my part on behalf of those people who lost everything. I am giving back by doing something I can do, which is cook New Orleans food like no one else.