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The halfway point has been reached in an extended public consultation into whether Galloway should become Scotland's third national park. NatureScot is conducting the process which ends on 14 ...
Opponents to proposals to create Scotland's third national park in Galloway have staged a protest outside council headquarters in Dumfries. It came ahead of discussions of a call for a local ...
In 2011 the Scottish Government rejected a proposal to create a national park on the Isle of Harris. [15] In 2013 the Scottish Campaign for National Parks proposed the seven areas listed below as suitable for national park status, however no further parks were subsequently designated. [13] [16] Harris; Wester Ross; Glen Affric
Biologist E. O. Wilson proposed a large national park encompassing most of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta to protect high levels of biodiversity in the region. In 2017, the National Park Service highlighted interest in the region in a report. [52] Protecting Biodiversity Through National Park System Expansion, National Parks Traveler
The President of the United States can establish a national monument by presidential proclamation, and the United States Congress can by legislation. The Antiquities Act of 1906 authorized the president to proclaim "historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest" as national monuments.
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The park was granted Dark Sky Park status ("Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park") in November 2009, being the first area in the UK to be so designated. [ 2 ] The park, established in 1947, covers 774 square kilometres (299 sq mi) [ 1 ] and receives over 800,000 visitors per year.
Galloway is also the setting of several memoirs, including Devorgilla Days written by Wigtownshire author Kathleen Hart, an account of life in Wigtown, Scotland's national book town. With regard to Scottish Gaelic literature , the only text known to survive in Galwegian Gaelic is a song called Òran Bagraidh , which was collected from a North ...