"What this is intended to do is to open up access into our national forest and state parks for the public. So you add land, but you also add a lot of connectivity by doing this."
"Mesa Verde is unique because it is a national park telling the story of people on the landscape. Even though all national parks have human stories, the Ancestral Pueblo people, the ancestral sites they built, and the park's connection to modern Pueblos and Tribes are key here."