Annual Reports of the Directors and General Superintendents of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior. 1915-1963 and National Park Excerpts from the Reports of the Department of the Interior. 1913-1915
National Park Service and Department of the Interior. 1913-1963. Annual Reports of the Directors and General Superintendents of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior. 1915-1963 and National Park Excerpts from the Reports of the Department of the Interior. 1913-1915. Government Printing Office
This collection of reports includes: National Park Excerpts from the Reports of the Department of the Interior. 1913-1915 The excerpts from the Department of the Interior reports discuss the need for a federal agency to oversee the national parks. They track the Bill proposing a National Park Service that was then making its way through Congress and the appointment in 1914 of a general superintendent for all of the parks and monuments managed by the Department of the Interior. Annual Report of the Superintendent of National Parks. 1916. Report of the General Superintendent and Landscape Engineer of National Parks. 1915 Prior to the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, the Secretary of the Interior appointed a Superintendent of National Parks to oversee nominal administration of the parks and monuments managed by the Department. The 1915 and 1916 reports were the first annual reports specifically written about the national parks. They also discuss the need for and creation of a National Park Service. Annual Reports of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior from 1917 to 1963. Each of these publications cover the previous fiscal year. They're comprehensive "State of the Service" reports written for the Secretary of the Interior. They were included in the Secretary's annual reports to the President of the United States. The reports discuss the issues and accomplishments of the National Park Service, the National Park System, and individual parks and monuments. In addition, they report on things such as proposed and new parks, historic preservation, scientific research, conservation, tourism, visitation numbers, organizational changes and issues, budgets, legislation, and anything else that affected the Service and System during the fiscal year. (See NOTES below.) The reports also track larger changes over the course of decades to include things such as early modes of transportation (automobiles, highways), the subsequent rise in visitation and how this affected the park system, changes in forestry and wildlife management, and changes in architecture (Mission 66). DATES: FISCAL YEAR: From 1843 to 1976 the U.S. Federal Government's fiscal year began on July 1 and ended on June 30 of the following year. TRAVEL SEASON: The travel season for visitors to National Park units was generally considered to be from July 1 - September 30 within a given year.
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