Ryan Zinke, during his recent short tenure as Interior Secretary, standing at the front gate of Yellowstone. Zinke believes limiting visitor numbers to Yellowstone is anathema. Instead, he wants to continue further turbo-charging recreation tourism by expanding the size of facilities, building more trails and infrastructure to accommodate more people not only in parks but on all public lands. Today, Zinke's desire to intensively enlarge the footprint of outdoor recreation is shared by the Biden Administration, members of the outdoor recreation industry he was previously at odds with and even conservation organizations. Photo courtesy NPS
Ryan Zinke, during his recent short tenure as Interior Secretary, standing at the front gate of Yellowstone. Zinke believes limiting visitor numbers to Yellowstone is anathema. Instead, he wants to continue further turbo-charging recreation tourism by expanding the size of facilities, building more trails and infrastructure to accommodate more people not only in parks but on all public lands. Today, Zinke's desire to intensively enlarge the footprint of outdoor recreation is shared by the Biden Administration, members of the outdoor recreation industry he was previously at odds with and even conservation organizations. Photo courtesy NPS