CONTENTS Baker, Howard, director, Midwest region, National Park Service ____ Beard, Daniel B., director, Southwest region, National Park Service.. Carver, Hon. John A., Assistant Secretary, Department of the Interior. Cox, Elbert, director, Southeast region, National Park Service... Flynn, Tom, Director, Division of Concession Management, National Hartzog, George B., Jr., Director, National Park Service, Department Hummel, Edward A., director, Western region, National Park Service. Lee, Ronald F., director, Northeast region, National Park Service- - - Estimated costs of land acquisition and development. Illustration indicating proposed additions to national park system.. Illustration showing six regions of National Park Service. Letter dated May 20, 1961, from Hon. Wayne N. Aspinall, chairman, House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee to Hon. Stewart L. Letter dated June 5, 1961, from Hon. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior to Hon. Wayne N. Aspinall, chairman, Committee on Private lands acquired in last 5 years. "Relationship between the National Park Service and the Bureau of 64 66 44 REVIEW OF NATIONAL PARK SERVICE POLICIES THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1964 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in the committee room, 1324 Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Thomas G. Morris (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. MORRIS. The Subcommittee on National Parks will be in order for the purpose of conducting hearings, and the witnesses will be from the Department of the Interior. Before we start on the formal hearings, I would like to make a short statement if my colleagues will just bear with me. First, I want to welcome the witnesses: Assistant Secretary Carver and Director Hartzog and members of their staff. Mr. Carver we are all well acquainted with so I need not go into his background. Mr. Hartzog, however, is new to many of us. He is the latest in a long line of able Directors of the National Park Service and will, I am confident, carry on their good work. I have had several discussions with him and have found him frank, forthright, full of ideas, and knowledgeable about the needs and weaknesses of the Park Service and its place in the conservation movement. Mr. Hartzog, I want personally to welcome you before the committee. It is a pleasure to have you. I called this meeting of the Subcommittee on National Parks not only in order to get acquainted with Mr. Hartzog, but also because it seems to me that this is a particularly opportune time for us to have a look, in a general way, at the organization, the aims, and the policies of the National Park Service. A new crew is taking over, and that makes this a very good time for such a session as the one we have planned for today and tomorrow. Many of us have had specific questions about the aims and policies of the National Park Service from time to time. Some of our questions have arisen from our own lack of information, some from honest doubts. Some have been thrust upon us by our constituents, some by the actions of our predecessors, some by developments in the executive branch, some by pending legislation, some by attitudes expressed by other committees of Congress. Let me mention just a few of these. A simple one, perhaps, has to do with questions of terminology. What is a national park? What is a national monument? What is a national recreation area? What are the differences between them? Or another-what role does the Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments play in the decisionmaking process? How are its members selected? Who are these members? To whom are they responsible? |