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Sellars, Richard West, – "A Very Large Array: Early Federal Historic Preservation—The Antiquities Act, Mesa Verde, and the National Park Service Act" (evolution of early national park system; legislative history; discussion of interpretation/education in early national parks, etc.), published by the University of New Mexico School of Law, 2007.
On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation that created the National Park Service. The National Park Service Organic Act, [1] or the Organic Act as referred to within the National Park Service, is a United States federal law that established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the United States Department of the Interior.
The National Park System includes all properties managed by the National Park Service, which have a wide variety of titles or designations. The system as a whole is considered to be a national treasure of the United States, and some of the more famous national parks and monuments are sometimes referred to as " crown jewels ".
For an area to become a unit of the National Park System, it must possess nationally significant natural, cultural, or recreational resources; be a suitable [a] and feasible [b] addition to the system; and require direct management by the National Park Service (NPS) (rather than protection by the private sector or other governmental agencies).
In March 2022, President Biden signed the Amache National Historic Site Act, which entered the site into the National Park System. As a national park, the site will be protected for future ...
But because most units contained a combination of natural, historic, and recreational lands, the General Authorities Act of 1970 made all areas equal within the National Park System; [13] separate policy manuals for each were replaced in 1975 with one that would tailor policies in each park respective to the purpose of zones within.
The Redwood Act [1] (also Redwood amendment) is a 1978 amendment to the US National Park Service General Authorities Act of 1970. The amendment is particularly notable for clarifying and supplementing the 1970 act and the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916 with the following two important sentences as the second and third to the General Authorities Act:
Gary Ingram remembers the first time he met Jimmy Carter. It was 2007, a hot summer day in Plains, Georgia. Ingram was in his late 30s, working for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C ...