Parks and People:
Preserving Our Past For The Future
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/sontag6.htm "...Natural resource management was restructured along ecological lines following a 1963 report by a committee of distinguished scientists chaired by A. Starker Leopold. "As a primary goal, we would recommend that THE BIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS WITHIN EACH PARK BE MAINTAINED, OR WHERE NECESSARY RECREATED, AS NEARLY AS POSSIBLE IN THE CONDITION THAT PREVAILED WHEN THE AREA WAS FIRST VISITED BY THE WHITE MAN," the Leopold Report declared. [See Wildlands Project Revealed
http://www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org ]. "A national park should represent a vignette of primitive America." The natural roles of predators, once routinely killed, and wildfire, customarily suppressed, received special emphasis...."
"....The historic preservation activities of the Service expanded dramatically beyond the parks. Responding to the destructive effects of urban renewal, highway construction, and other federal projects during the postwar era, the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 authorized the Service to maintain a comprehensive NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES. National Register properties — publicly or privately owned, locally or nationally significant — would receive special consideration in federal project planning and various forms of assistance to encourage their preservation...."
[In Rappahannock, VA recently, a woman who had huddled with an architect for about a year, to build a $400-500,000 house in the Historic Town of Little Washington, was turned down because her neighbors feared that the concrete siding, which looks like the real thing but doesn't need to be painted, would leave the house still standing 30 or 40 years down the road, 'after the others had fallen down'!]
**** Several new types of parks joined the system during the Hartzog years. Ozark NATIONAL SCENIC RIVERWAYS in Missouri, authorized by Congress in 1964, FORESHADOWED THE COMPREHENSIVE WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS ACT OF 1968, WHICH LED TO THE PRESERVATION OF OTHER FREE-FLOWING RIVERS AS NATIONAL PARKLANDS.
[***** See NPS - FRIEND OR FOE? posted by countrydummy
http://www.newriverfriends.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/922428/posts?page=57 . Countrydummy, this is really dedicated to you. I coudn't sleep Sunday night thinking about this, and jumped up Monday morning to see what I could do.]
"...The National Trails System Act of 1968 gave the Service responsibility for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, running some 2,000 miles from Maine to Georgia..." [In reality, these trails start in Mexico and go to Canada. The plan