ABSTRACT
Having reviewed the rise of conflicts on public land in the previous chapter, this chapter examines how these conflicts are resolved in law and the extent to which such a solution has been achieved. Both Congress and the NPS have established their respective understandings of how a national park should look and how conflicts arising from park management should be resolved. Therefore, the assessment of the legal foundations is two-fold: it involves what Congress states in law and how the agency interprets the statutory language.
