Mission 66: To Provide Adequate Protection and Development of the National Park System for Human Use
1956. Mission 66: To Provide Adequate Protection and Development of the National Park System for Human Use. National Park Service; United States Department of the Interior
Mission 66 is a fresh look at the problems and the future of the National Park System. It seeks to retain the best from the past, and to make new applications of policy and practice that will most effectively serve the needs of the future. If the results are to be realistic, consistent, and pointed in the right direction, MISSION 66 planning must start from familiar ground. The nature of any view depends upon the choice of position from which that view is obtained. What, then, is the vantage point from which MISSION 66 views the parks? The Act of 1916 which established the National Park Service has guided this service will continue to do so. It is, in a sense, its constitution. This is the familiar ground from which we look at the problems of today and extend our view into the future. All plans, every development and managements practice, and every use made of national park resources must find justification in the park purpose defined in that law. The first requirement of the MISSION 66 program, therefore, is to consider anew the purpose for which the parks exist, to explore that purpose to discover its full meanings and its new applications in the light of present and future conditions
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 1956-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service; United States Department of the Interior
- Units
- HIST
- Keywords
- Development, ehistory, History, Human, National Park System, NPS, Parks, Policies, Preservation, Protection, Recreation, Travel, Use