Our Vanishing Shoreline: The Shoreline, the Survey, the Areas
National Park Service. Our Vanishing Shoreline: The Shoreline, the Survey, the Areas
As late as I 935-just two decades ago--the National Park Service made a survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and found plenty of unspoiled seashore areas suitable for public recreation. It recomended that 12 major strips. with 437 miles of beach, be preserved as national areas. These were superb tracts. There were plenty of others, only a little less desirable, suitable for State and other reserves. Only one of the 12 was actually acquired as a national seashore. All the others, save one, have long since gone mLO private and commercial developments. The real boom that has created such a problem for those interested in seashore conservation began after World War II. It is in part a product of postwar prosperity, and its spectacular acceleration in onl y a decade IS nothing shon of a business phenomenon.
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- Action, Area, ehistory, heritage, History, recommendation, shore, Shoreline, Survey