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TIIE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
National Park Service
Celebrating 30th Year;
Director
xpansions Are Planned
21 Million People
Visited National Park
In 1941; Larger
Crowds Forecast
By NEWTON B. OKl'KY
Director, National Park Service
The National I'ark Service is
now celehral mil; ils IKlth : 11 ri i c
' :u . It vas cstahlished h
act of Conercss uliich was sii'ixd
hy 1 "rt-vitient Wooilrow Wilson mi
Aueust 25, 1910.
Kven at that time. i!' course.
the development nf an American
"national pai k system" had pin
Flossed far since that 1 1 i n h t in
1870 when explorers of the Yellow
stone country, havim; envisioned
fascinating possibilities of pei-viial
Ram from the natural splendor
and curiosities they had seen, de
cided to intern their chances of
enrichment and. instead, to work
for the f-lnhli'-hnieiit of a national
park.
The law that, two years later,
brought Yellowstone National i'ark
into beiin'. laid the foundation of
a new pattern ot land use, des
tined to he applied not only to
Yellowstone- but also to the other
national parks which Congress has
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established diiiint; these 74 years.
1 he yet which created the National
Park Service save it definition
I when it placed upon the new
j agency the responsibility, with re
I spec! to the national parks and
j iiioiunnenls, -to conserve the scenic
land historic objects and the wihl
i life therein and to make them
available lor public enjoyment in
' such manner and by such means
i as will hac them unimpaired bli
the enjoyment of future Kenera
j t ions."
I It has sometimes been said that
the establishment ot a national
' park or national monument means
I that its resources are thenceforth
'"locked up." It is true that (hey
are thenceforth kept from com
; inerrial exploitation: the (uresis,
(he u ildlife, I he meadow s, the
i lakes and How inn streams, and the
I natural relationships of all living
and I'.rowinK things are loll un
disturbed. Hut the 21.1)011,0(11) peo
ple who visited and enjoyed them
in 194 1 would hardly he likely to j
aHi'ee that they were locked up or'
that their resources were not pul
to desirable uses: nor have the
more than 11,000,000 men and wom
en in 1 be uniform of the V nited j
States armed forces who have en-'
, to red them during (he past live!
years seeijied lo have any such
j opinion. Instead, thousands of them
I have felt that these remnants of
j original America and these rernind
I ers of their country's inspirinn .
: historic past were pari, and an j
important part, of what they were
preparing to fibl, or had fought,
to safeguard. I
At the time the National I'ark j
Service was established, those basic I
principles of management were j
made applicable to 14 national
parks and 21 national monuments !
w hich bad been entrusted to De- f
partmenl ot the Interior safekeep-
ing but which had been, up to j
then, somewhat like stepchildren !
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NKWTON 15. DRUHY. well known
here, has been director of the
National I'ark Service since 1940
the fourth to hold that position
since (he Service was established
in 1910. A former advertising ex
ecutive, be served for 21 years as
executive secretary of (be Save-J
(he-Redwoods League of California, '
which was instrumental in preserv
ing thousands of acres of virgin
redwood forest. From 1929 until
his appointment to his present po
sition, he was also in charge of the
$12,0(111,(1011 state park purchase
program tor (lie Stale of California.
For these services he received the
Hutchinson medal awarded by the
Garden Club of America in 1945;
the l'ugsley gold medal of (he
American Scenic and Historic
Preservation Society, and the Con
servation award of Hie Massachu
setts Trustees of Public Reserva-J
(ions.
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of the Depart merit, with no respon
sible official held directly respon
sible for (heir management or for
impressing their needs upon Congress.
Congress alone can establish a i
national park or abolish one. ;
Since 1910 it has added ITi, con-;
taming a total of nearly 5,!IO0,00O :
acres, greatly enriching a system j
already possessed of extraor dinary
distinction. j
Especially noteworthy has been !
Hie extension of national parks!
east of the Mississippi Great
Smoky Mountains, Hie biological j
and botanical wonderland in Ten- i
nessee and North Carolina; Shen-I
andoah, a 100-niile section of Vir
ginia's Blue Ridge: long famous
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky:
Acadia, first distinguished as (he
Sieur de Monls National Monu
ment, whose granite heights rise
direct from the Atlantic: and the
island wilderness of Isle Royale
in Lake Superior.
The same period has seen the
year - after - year employment, by
every president from Theodore
Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roose
velt, of the Antiquities Act, passed
in 1900, to set aside distinguished
scientific, historic and prehistoric
sites as national monuments.
The National Park Service was
exceptionally fortunate in having
had, as its first Director, Stephen
T. Mather, of California, who
brought to his pioneering task a
fine organizing ability, a great ca
pacity for engendering loyalty
among his subordinates as well as
for making friends for the young
service, and a splendid conception
of the potential usefulness of the
system he was called on to man
age. Horace M. Albright, who suc
ceeded him in 1929, had been Mr.
Mather's "right bower" throughout
(he lalter's entire period of gov-
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Cammerer, who succeeded Mr. Al
bright in 1933, and who served
until ill health forced his resigna
tion in 1940, also had been asso
ciated closely with (he first direc
tor for r any years. Of the man
who pul the National Park Service
on its feet," former representa
tive Crainlon of Michigan has said,
"He laid the foundation of Na
tional l'ark Service, defining and
establishing the policies under
which its aieas shall be developed
and conserved unimpaired for fu
ture generations. There will never
come an end to the good that he
has duneV'
The thirty years of the National
Park Service's existence have been
full ones. Aside from the addition
of national parks and monuments,
progress has been attained along
many different lines. Among the
uiosl noteworthy of these- might be
lisied t he following:
The development, virtually "from
scratch," of an adequate technical
and administrative organization,
comprising the headquarters office '
(temporarily in Chicago); four re-
gional olfices iir Richmond, Va.: j
Omaha, Neb.; Santa Ke, N. M.; and ;
San Francisco, Calif., all estab- '
lished in l!).'i7; and the .superin
tendents and custodians- of the in
dividual areas with competent ad
ministrative, protective and interp
retive staffs.
Long range- planning of area
developments through creation of
"master plans" which are flexible
guides, revised and brought up to
date at regular intervals.
Development of an effective in
terpretative program to enable
park visitors better to understand
the natural phenomena and the his
toric and prehistoric sites and ob
jects in the system. Its main ele
ments are research both within and
without the service, ranger-naturalist
and ranger-historian services,
museums, and interpretative and
informational publications.
Modernization of the road sys
tems of the curlier parks, and con
struction of road systems in those
more recently established, to re-'
veal a fair assortment of the major
features while leaving much the
greater pint of each area to be
penetrated only afoot or on horse
back. Establishment of the George
Washington, Colonial, Blue Ridge,
and Natchez Trace Parkways the
beginnings of what may ultimately
be a much more extensive par kway
system.
Consolidation of all national
parks, monuments, and miscellan
eous histor ical areas into a single
"national park system,' and the
development of specialized admin
istrative and interpretative tech
niques for- the various types of
areas included.
Passage of legislation which per
mits the Secretary of the Interior,
with the consent of the President,:
to establish "national historic
sites," whether federally owned
and operated, or owned and oper
ated by non-federal agencies.
Direction of the Civilian Con
servation Corps program on na
tional park system areas and on
hundreds of stale, county, and met
ropolitan parks.
Legislation authorizing National
Park Service cooperation with
other federal agencies and with
state park agencies in selection of
park and recreation areas and in
planning their development.
Legislation authorizing National
Park Service cooperation with oth
er federal agencies and with state
park agencies in selection of parks
and recreation areas and in plan
ning their development.
Allocation to the Bureau of Pub-,
lie Roads, now the Public Road.i
Administration, the job of direct-:
ing the construction of nationals
park system highways.
Cooperation with war agencies.
throughout, the war in the issuanee-J
of more than 2.400 permits for
war uses to further the conduct
of the war, under conditions satis
factory to those agencies and yet
with such safeguards that the end.
of the war finds the areas virtually.,
unimpaired.
As the National Park Service,
neais the start of its fourth decade,
it finds itself faced with a multi-1
tude of problems. Perhaps the
most pressing is that of consoli--dating
the properties in the Na-i
tional Park System by aequisitioai
of the non-federal lands within
their boundaries. These lands total,
some fi25,000 acres. While it may.
take as much as $20,000,000 to.
purchase them all, it will be worth
it in the preservation of scenic,
scientific and historic resources;
in simplification of administrative
control; and in permitting needed
developments that will otherwise-,
be impossible of accomplishment
or much more expensive. Closely1
related to this is the necessity of,
making boundary revisions that;
will provide more satisfactory yoar
round wildlife habitats or that will"
eliminate lands not needed for
national park purposes.
The Service is faced continually1
by pressures to open the areas to'
such economic exploitations as the.
logging of ancient and majesticj
forests: the harnessing of streams
and the changing of lake levels to.l
provide power and irrigation; the
extension of domestic livestock,)
grazing, and the removal of min-'
eral resources.
During the war, because the na-l
tton s needs required tt, one park;
and one monument were opened to
mining. When it is clearly proven?
tnat national need, rather than
local desire for enrichment nd1
exploitation. Justifies the commer-2
ciai utilization ol tnese resources,
it will doubtless be necessary to
permit it however regretfully. But
Robert L. Gifford
Released From Navy
Robert L. Giffor d, Seaman fir
class, son of Mr s. Anna 1). Gifford,
of Waynesville, U.F.I). No 1, was
among twenty North Carolinians
who-were released to inactive duty
or honorably discharged at the
Charleston Naval Separation Cent
er on Tuesday, of last week.
Seaman Gilford entered the navy
on August 21, 1944, and served a
total of 18 months in (he navy,
eight of which were spent on sea
duly. He was employed as a clerk
in a local store at the time he
entered the service.
Seaman Gilford is entitled to
wear the American Theater rib
bon, Asiatic-Pacific theater, and the
Victory medal.
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(he lime has not yet come when
this fraction of one per cent of the
nation's area, compr ising ils finest
scenic resources and the most pre
cious of the places where its his
tory has been made, needs to
be invaded for gain. The National
Park Service is strong in its faith
that, in safeguarding these price
less things, it has a responsibility
which, if conscientiously met, will
contribute greatly to the physical
well-being and the spiritual satis
faction of many generations of
Americans yet unborn.
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