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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The staffing is not good. The parks are deteriorating.