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Heritage Areas: Background, Proposals, and Current Issues

Description: This report focuses on heritage areas designated by Congress and related issues and legislation. Over more than two decades, Congress has established 40 National Heritage Areas (NHAs) to commemorate, conserve, and promote areas that include important natural, scenic, historic, cultural, and recreational resources.
Date: June 4, 2013
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy & Comay, Laura B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heritage Areas: Background, Proposals, and Current Issues

Description: This report focuses on heritage areas designated by Congress and related issues and legislation. Over more than two decades, Congress has established 40 National Heritage Areas (NHAs) to commemorate, conserve, and promote areas that include important natural, scenic, historic, cultural, and recreational resources.
Date: September 5, 2008
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy & Whiteman, David L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Park System: Establishing New Units

Description: This report discusses the National Park System that includes 391 diverse units administered by the National Park Service (NPS) of the Department of the Interior. Units of the system generally are managed to preserve resources in their natural or historical conditions for the benefit of future generations.
Date: June 10, 2008
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heritage Areas: Background, Proposals, and Current Issues

Description: Over the past 20 years, Congress has established 24 National Heritage Areas (NHAs) to commemorate, conserve, and promote important areas that include natural, scenic, historic, cultural, and recreational resources. This report focuses on heritage areas designated by Congress, and related issues and legislation.
Date: October 1, 2004
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy & Whiteman, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Park Management

Description: This report discusses issues in National Park management. The 109th Congress is considering legislation and conducting oversight on National Park Service (NPS) related topics. The Administration is addressing park issues through budgetary, regulatory, and other actions.
Date: March 15, 2006
Creator: Vincent, Carol H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recreation on Federal Lands

Description: This report discuses the 109th Congress's considering legislation and conducting oversight on issues involving recreation on federal lands, including traditional recreational pursuits and newer forms of motorized recreation. The Administration is addressing these issues through budgetary, regulatory, and other actions.
Date: April 25, 2006
Creator: Calvert, Kori & Vincent, Carol H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Park System: What Do the Different Park Titles Signify?

Description: This report addresses questions that legislators have asked about park unit titles, when considering proposals to establish new park units, to redesignate existing units, or to change the provisions governing a unit It also discusses potential advantages and disadvantages of systemwide recommendations to simplify park nomenclature.
Date: February 20, 2013
Creator: Comay, Laura B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The National Park Service's Maintenance Backlog: Frequently Asked Questions

Description: This report addresses frequently asked questions about NPS deferred maintenance also known as the maintenance backlog. The discussion is organized under the headings of general questions, funding-related questions, management-related questions, and questions on Congress's role in addressing the backlog.
Date: August 23, 2017
Creator: Comay, Laura B.
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National Park Management

Description: This report discusses issues in National Park management. These issues include: the centennial initiative, maintenance backlog, wild and scenic rivers, and security.
Date: February 21, 2008
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy; Gorte, Ross W. & Johnson, Sandra L.
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Recreation on Federal Lands

Description: This report discusses recreation in federal lands that covers approximately 653 million acres of federally-owned land in the United States. This preservation/use dichotomy, while varying among agencies, is a focal point for debate over recreation on federal lands.
Date: February 12, 2008
Creator: Calvert, Kori; Johnson, Sandra L.; Vincent, Carol Hardy; Gorte, Ross W. & Carter, Nicole T.
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Wildfire Statistics

Description: This report analyzes the statistics of unplanned and unwanted fires and how the U.S. Forest Service responds to the growing number of wildfires.
Date: June 23, 2015
Creator: Hoover, Katie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Outdoor Recreation and Federal Laws: Selected Annotated References, 1970-1973

Description: This report provided an extensive annotated list of references for outdoor recreation literature. The references were divided into three categories: those relating to National or State Parks, those relating mainly to National Forests, and Congressional documents on subjects relating to outdoor recreation.
Date: January 1974
Creator: Siehl, George H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data

Description: This report provides data and an overview of the land owned by federal government, which is roughly 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States.
Date: March 3, 2017
Creator: Hardy Vincent, Carol
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recreation on Federal Lands

Description: The growing and diverse nature of recreation on federal lands has increased the challenge of balancing recreation with other land uses, and balancing different types of recreation. Motorized recreation has been particularly controversial, with issues centering on access and environmental impacts. The 109th Congress may consider legislation and conduct oversight on issues involving recreation on federal lands, including traditional recreational pursuits and newer forms of motorized recreation.… more
Date: April 25, 2005
Creator: Calvert, Kori & Vincent, Carol Hardy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recreation on Federal Lands

Description: The growing and diverse nature of recreation on federal lands has increased the challenge of balancing recreation with other land uses, and balancing different types of recreation. Motorized recreation has been particularly controversial, with issues centering on access and environmental impacts. The 109th Congress may consider legislation and conduct oversight on issues involving recreation on federal lands, including traditional recreational pursuits and newer forms of motorized recreation.… more
Date: April 25, 2005
Creator: Calvert, Kori & Vincent, Carol Hardy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Lands Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service (FS): Issues for the lllth Congress

Description: This report discusses actions that Congress is considering, which could affect the various uses and management of federal lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service, such as: legislation, administrative or regulatory proposals, and litigation and judicial decisions. Issue areas include onshore energy resources, administration of hardrock mining, wildfire protection, management of wild horses and burros, designation of the National Landscape Conservation System, w… more
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: Gorte, Ross W.; Hardy Vincent, Carol; Alexander, Kristina & Humphries, Marc
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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World Heritage Convention and U.S. National Parks

Description: This report describes the operation of the UNESCO Convention and will be updated periodically. The World Heritage Fund provides technical assistance to countries requesting help in protecting World Heritage sites.
Date: April 24, 2001
Creator: McHugh, Lois B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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World Heritage Convention and U.S. National Parks

Description: On July 13, 2000, the House passed H.R. 4811, the FY 2001 Foreign Operations bill, containing language prohibiting the use of any funds in the bill for the United Nations World Heritage Fund. This Fund provides technical assistance to countries requesting help in protecting World Heritage sites. On May 20, 1999, the House passed (by voice vote) the American Land Sovereignty Protection Act (H.R. 883), which requires congressional approval to add any additional U.S. national parks and monuments t… more
Date: July 17, 2000
Creator: McHugh, Lois B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Into the Canyons

Description: Into the Canyons is a documentary short that provides an intimate portrait of two volunteer Wilderness Rangers working and living in Zion National Park in Utah for a summer. Sarah dreams of being a Park Ranger for the National Park Service, but must wait till she earns US citizenship. Working in an office, Allen wants a change in lifestyle. Together they explore the Wilderness and learn what it means to be a Park Ranger.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Hoekzema, Abbey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Federal Land Ownership: Acquisition and Disposal Authorities

Description: This report describes the primary authorities of the following agencies for acquiring and disposing of federal land. These four federal agencies--the National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), all in the Department of the Interior (DOI), and the U.S. Forest Service (FS) in the Department of Agriculture--administer about 95% of those lands.
Date: May 19, 2015
Creator: Vincent, Carol H.; Corn, M. L.; Comay, Laura B. & Hoover, Katie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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World Heritage Convention and U.S. National Parks

Description: On March 6, 2001, Congressman Don Young introduced H.R. 883, the American Land Sovereignty Act. H.R. 883 requires congressional approval to add any lands owned by the United States to the World Heritage List, a UNESCO-administered list established by the 1972 World Heritage Convention. In related legislation, P.L. 106-429, in which H.R. 5526, the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs appropriations act for 2001 was referenced, contained language prohibiting funding from thi… more
Date: April 24, 2001
Creator: McHugh, Lois B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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