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类似天坑的一个公园.好多蝙蝠~~

It is early evening as soon as empathy, there will be standing room only for the evening show. Bats, hundreds of thousands of Mexican free-tail bats, a hungry tornado that swallows out of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns each night in search of food. It’s one of the many sights enjoyed by the park’s half million visitors each year. There are more than 100 known caves in the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. One of the caverns is not only a popular attraction but also a potential problem. About 1 in 3 visitors stops to fuel up in this underground lunchroom. The park servers conducted an environment assessment of the caverns, and in 1993 concluded that this lunchroom had to go. Among other problems the study said that light, heat, and fumes associated with the lunchroom would probably damage in the delicate limestone formations that are Carlsbad's crown jewels. There’s also a concern that it’s destructive to the bats. Trouble is for many visitors the lunchroom is part of the show.

Most every visitor that has ever been here before, you ask them what they remember, and they can remember the bats and they can remember the underground lunchroom. We ate lunch in underground lunchroom.

Picking up where his father left off, Frank Hodnett has built a multimillion-dollar concession here, including a second restaurant and gift shop atop. Cavernous in itself, the entire lunchroom sits on a paved floor with seating for some 700 people. Some chaos * there date from the 30s, and their solid concrete. Frank Hodnett maintains that tearing out the facility would cause more environmental havoc than leaving well enough for long.

If you took everything out, and not allow another visitor in here, it would never be restored to the natural state. So what we have to do is (to) manage the resource the best we can.

Randy Rasmussen wasn’t convinced. He ran a regional office of the National Park's Conservation Association.

There are issues associated with their admission. And it has to be studied, but I think in the long term my organization and others would support those types of activities that remove this to a more natural state.

Wandering through the enormous, 8.2-acre cavern known as the Big Room, tourists, even the kids show up quite reverent for the place. The park servers and environmentalists say the lunchroom is a glaring contrast.

This is like fining, your sembling falls into a plastic tube and running the visitors throughout into a giant waterslide.

It appears that at the bottom of the scientific and political orbits, the food find in Carlsbad Caverns is at least partly a matter of taste.