Stewart Udall: An appreciation Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
23.03.10
Stewart Udall was mete out at the creation of the West's conservation movement, and served as one of its creators as U.S. Interior Secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
Udall died at age 90 over the weekend in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a eagerness announced by his son Sen. Mark Udall, D-New Mexico.
Udall was from Arizona but left his mark on the Evergreen State.
He was Up-country Secretary during the long battle that led to creation in 1968 of the 694,000-acre North Cascades National Reservation complex, in legislation that also protected nearly one million acres as the Pasayten and Glacier Peak Wilderness Areas.
A key when it happened in preservation of the "American Alps" took place when Udall visited the 1962 Seattle World's Far, and was caller of honor at a beach party hosted on Bainbridge Island by attorney Irving Clark, Jr.
Clark invited Dr. Patrick Goldsworthy, the University of Washington medical principles professor who headed the North Cascades National Park.
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How Might the National Park System Appear if Not for the Use of the ... National Parks Traveler (blog)
17.03.10
If the Antiquities Act , which allows presidents to set aside country-wide monuments, had never been created, how might that have affected the National Park System as we see it today?
When the act was adopted in 1906, its sponsors envisioned presidents wielding it to keep safe "mostly prehistoric Indian ruins and artifacts-collectively termed 'antiquities' -on federal lands in the West."
"The bill's sponsors at expected that national monuments would be proclaimed to protect prehistoric cultural features, or antiquities, in the Southwest and that they would be small," notes the Federal Park Service. "Yet the reference in the act to 'objects of ... scientific interest' enabled President Theodore Roosevelt to atone a natural geological feature, Devils Tower , Wyoming, the first national monument three months later."
Of execution, President Roosevelt didn't stop there. He frequently turned to the Antiquities Acct to preserve landscapes. Among those he set aside as nationalist monuments were Petrified Forest, Arizona, and two cultural features, El Morro, New Mexico, and Montezuma Castle, Arizona. And, of conduct, he also established a national monument around the Grand Canyon, which later became a national park, as did Petrified Forest Nationwide Monument.
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