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Udall testifies that National Park Service would be “good steward for Valles Caldera”

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The office of U.S. Sen. Tom Udall has released a video showing the testimony of the junior senator from New Mexico last week to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. During this testimony, Mr. Udall ardently contended that National Park Service management is the best option for the future of Valles Caldera National Preserve, and called for the passage of S.3452, the Valles Caldera National Preserve Management Act. Click on the video below to watch Mr. Udall’s testimony.

 

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Map of the Region

• List of organizations, newspapers, pueblos, and officials that support replacing the Valles Caldera Trust with the Park Service

• Caldera Trustees call for Park Service to assume management of Preserve

• Albuquerque Journal and Santa Fe New Mexican endorse passage of bill transferring Valles Caldera to National Park Service

•Los Alamos County Council unanimously calls for National Park Service to take the reigns at Valles Caldera

•Listening sessions indicate overwhelming public opposition to Trust management of Caldera; 86% of attendees express support for proposed Park Service stewardship of Preserve

•Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce endorses Park Service to manage Valles Caldera

•Journal North editorial board: “Turning the preserve over to the Park Service is the right idea, and Congress should get behind the bill”

•Founding chairman of Valles Caldera Trust calls for it to be abolished

•Would NPS management of Valles Caldera be a better bargain for the American taxpayer?

•Udall discusses Valles Caldera legislation in press conference: Park Service would give the “maximum experience” to visitors while preserving land’s natural and cultural resources

•Journal North: “Support appears to be growing” for an end to Trust control of Caldera

•“Residents prefer park service” to manage Caldera, headlines Los Alamos Monitor

•Callers to KUNM suggest strong public support for converting Caldera to a National Park Preserve

•“Affordable” fee for fishing on the Valles Caldera: higher than the average Major League Baseball ticket

• Read the National Park Service's report on the Valles Caldera

•Associated Press asks if the Valles Caldera Trust is a “failed federal experiment”

•A tour of the Valles Caldera’s potential sister National Park Service preserves

•N.M. Wildlife Federation calls for “professional, public natural resource agency” to manage Caldera

•Journal North quotes Preserve management as claiming that Park Service could put VCNP programs at risk; editors respond by deriding managers’ statements as “less than convincing” and “laughable”

•Auditors reveal deficiencies at the Valles Caldera: no audits since 2000, “reportable noncompliance with laws and regulations,” “possible misuse of appropriated funds”

•“Possibilities are endless” with Caldera under National Park Service management, according to Albuq. Journal feature

•“GAO report: Valles Caldera Trust lacks solid plan,” says Santa Fe New Mexican

•“It is time to save the Baca – again – and finish the job,” says former NPS Director

•Future management of Preserve discussed in Albuq. forum

•Journal: “Advocacy Groups Condemn Valles Caldera Plans”

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