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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a case where bison are wandering near the Park border or crossing onto private lands. Part of our effort under the Interagency Management Plan, in addition to maintaining a viable population, is to protect Montana's brucellosis-free status.

We don't know at this point what caused the accident.

This is not population control.