New Parks for the Nation: White House Conference on Conservation
1962. New Parks for the Nation: White House Conference on Conservation. Washington, D.C.. May 24-25, 1962. National Park Service. Washington, D.C.
The publication looks at 29 potential new National Park Service units. Each potential unit is discussed and any legislation pertaining to the proposed park is outlined. The proposed new National Park Service units were: Allagash National Recreation Area, Maine Allegheny Parkway, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky Between-the-Lakes National Recreation Area, Kentucky-Tennessee Boston National Historic Site, Massachusetts Canyonlands National Park, Utah Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Maryland Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Arizona Fort Larned National Historic Site, Kansas Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming George Washington Memorial Parkway Extension to Woodlawn, Virginia Golden Spike National Historic Site, Utah Great Basin National Park, Nevada Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Arizona Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, Wisconsin Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana Oregon Dunes National Seashore, Oregon Ozark Rivers National Monument, Missouri Padre Island National Seashore, Texas Pecos National Monument, New Mexico Pictured Rocks National Seashore, Michigan Point Reyes National Seashore, California Poverty Point National Monument, Louisiana Prairie National Park, Kansas Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, New Hampshire Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace and Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York Tocks Island National Recreation Area, New Jersey-Pennsylvania Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, California
- Type
- Conference Proceeding
- Date of Issue
- 1962
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- BOST , CANY , CHOH , DEWA , FLFO , FOBO , FOBU , FOLS , GOSP , GRBA , GWMP , HUTR , ICAG , INDU , OZAR , PAIS , PECO , PIRO , POPO , PORE , SAGA , SAHI , SLBE , TAPR , THRB , WHIS
- Keywords
- history, proposed national park units, proposed national parks