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Public parks and private lands

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  • 1985
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  • The California Geographer 25: 13-32
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  • For most of the last century, national parks in the United States were created to preserve areas of unique or outstanding natural beauty, and simply involved the transfer of portions of the public domain into a different category, initially as individual parks, and, after 1916, as units of the newly created National Park Service, under the Department of the Interior. During the last two decades, however, there has been an increasing emphasis on parks as historical or recreational areas, which are more accessible to the general public than many of the earlier parks. This often requires the acquisition of land which is not part of the public domain. These changes have meant that park administrators are now faced with problems for which earlier experiences failed to prepare them. Since parks in other parts of the world have had to face similar problems for some time, there may well be lessons which can be learned and applied to the newer U.S. parks. This paper, therefore, seeks to do three things: first, briefly examine the concept of National Parks; second, review some of the characteristics of the National Parks of England and Wales; and third, see whether some of these features can be profitably applied to some of the newer U.S. parks, with the Santa Monica Mountain National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) as an example.
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