Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended ... and the Travel SeasonU.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 |
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184. lappuse - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
175. lappuse - Parkway, as you gentlemen know, is intended to provide a connection between the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. The...
291. lappuse - August 13, 1953, are as follows: to develop and to execute suitable plans for the celebration, in 1957, of the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, first permanent English settlement in America. 1607; the flowering of colonial Virginia culture and statesmanship at Williamsburg on the eve of and during the Revolution; and the final winning of our American independence at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.
180. lappuse - The 1940 quinquennial survey of county and municipal parks, conducted in cooperation with the National Recreation Association and the American Institute of Park Executives, was completed.
321. lappuse - ... and their retention in their natural condition. The Secretary may, in his discretion, grant leases for building purposes for terms not exceeding ten years of small parcels of ground not exceeding five acres, at such places in said park as shall require the erection of buildings for the accommodation of visitors...
322. lappuse - Department undertook af ur1 her study of its concessions policy, since it had become apparent that little progress was to be expected under the policy enunciated in 1948 (by former Secretary Krug). Before the end of the year, Secretary Chapman had approved certain basic principles which, in most respects, supported procedures which the National Park Service had developed through three decades. The revised statement of policy, embodying these principles, was issued last October after numerous conferences...
349. lappuse - DC, prominent in many conservation activities, were appointed to the Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments by Secretary Chapman, as successors to Dr.
338. lappuse - Service in several areas with personnel of adjacent national forests and State forestry organizations to improve cooperative action on large fires. Park Service personnel represent the Department in a number of States in the development of coordinated civil defense wild-land fire control plans. Disease and Insect Enemies of the Forest In continued cooperation with the Division of Plant Disease Control of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, steady progress has been made in the protection...
221. lappuse - ... S" Ranch are points of historic interest to the thousands of tourists. The distinguished historian of the West, Frederic L. Paxson, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his History of the American Frontier, sums up the historical importance of the region when he says : Jackson Hole, at the base of Grand Tetons, is not only a great scenic treasure but also an important early center of mountain fur trade and exploration of the far West. It should be preserved as a national asset.
171. lappuse - There surely is ample justification for the consensus among conservation leaders that the forests in the national parks should not be cut unless the trees are absolutely essential to the prosecution of the war, with no reasonable alternative.