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Book/Printed Material National park service : hearing before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 434 and H.R. 8668, bills to establish a National park service and for other purposes. April 5 and 6, 1916

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  • National park service : hearing before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 434 and H.R. 8668, bills to establish a National park service and for other purposes. April 5 and 6, 1916

Summary

  • This hearing was held on two bills that were eventually replaced by the bill which passed in the same session (H.R. 15522) creating the National Park Service; no separate hearings were held on that bill. The hearing contains testimony by a number of individuals and representatives of organizations responsible for supporting the idea of a Park Service, including Stephen T. Mather, Robert Sterling Yard, Horace MacFarland and Richard Watrous of the American Civic Association, the American Scenic and Historical Preservation Society, and the Burlington Railroad; it includes extracts from the Secretary of the Interior's 1915 Annual Report, which link the national parks to the urban park movement, and declare that "the aim [of the parks] is to open them thoroughly by road and trail and give access and accomodation to every degree of income;" it includes statistics on tourism in the parks, including auto tourism, and statistics and other information on the parks' fiscal and managerial condition, thus providing what is in effect an administrative snapshot of the national parks and monuments on the eve of the Park Service's creation; and it reprints all of the House hearing of April 24, 1912, and nearly all of the House hearing of April 29, 1914, both of which concerned bills to create a Park Service, thus providing readers of the present document with something of a capsule history of the development of National Park Service legislation. American Memory.

Names

  • United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands

Created / Published

  • Washington : Govt. print. off., 1916.

Headings

  • -  United States.--National Park Service
  • -  National parks and reserves--United States

Notes

  • -  Scott Ferris, chairman.
  • -  Available also in microform in CIS US congressional committee hearings, accession number H163-6.

Medium

  • 186 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KF27 .P76 1916a

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 44022126

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United States Congress. House. Committee On The Public Lands. National park service: hearing before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 434 and H.R. , bills to establish a National park service and for other purposes. April 5 and 6, 1916. Washington: Govt. print. off, 1916. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/44022126/.

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United States Congress. House. Committee On The Public Lands. (1916) National park service: hearing before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 434 and H.R. , bills to establish a National park service and for other purposes. April 5 and 6, 1916. Washington: Govt. print. off. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/44022126/.

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United States Congress. House. Committee On The Public Lands. National park service: hearing before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 434 and H.R. , bills to establish a National park service and for other purposes. April 5 and 6, 1916. Washington: Govt. print. off, 1916. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/44022126/>.