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05/27/2008 - 9:07amRare Letters Stolen From Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace By Historian RecoveredWow, this gives historians a bad name! And Theodore Roosevelt had their collection in a vault, no less. Meanwhile, at Blue Ridge Parkway, it has taken years to get the archives into a safe place with proper climate control, security, and organization. I've just written about this over on the ...
02/15/2008 - 9:07amWhere Do the Presidential Candidates Stand on America's National Parks?Yes, I agree with Mookie and would take it a step further to ask the candidate where they stand, more generally, on the matter of encouraging/fostering more private funding for the parks (as was proposed in the "matching funds" part of the Centennial Initiative). I would like to know if ...
09/04/2007 - 8:10pmCentennial Projects: Do They All Prepare the National Parks for the Next 100 Years?Dear MRC: I'm the author of the post Kurt pointed you to that compared the Centennial Initiative to Mission 66. As you can see, Mission 66 was a ten-year effort to pour funding into the National Parks in advance of the Park Service's 50th birthday in 1966. Compared to the ...