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	Australia Parks - National - Tourist - Caravan - Camping - Information Centre
		Alfred National Park contains some of the most southerly occurrences of warm temperate rainforest in Australia.
		The park was proposed by naturalists Charles Daley and Edward Pescott and was established 1925.
		The park is on the Princes Highway, approximately 480 km east of Melbourne and 500 km south of Sydney.
	parks.camping.com.au /vic/vic_east_alfred.htm (292 words)

	Alfred National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred is a small national park in Victoria (Australia), 388 km east of Melbourne.
		The park is particularly known for occurrence of four varieties of tree ferns and of epiphytic orchids such as the orange-blossom orchid Sarcochilus falcatus and the rock orchid Dendrobium speciosum.
		The park was burnt quite badly in the 1983 'Ash Wednesday' bushfires.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_National_Park (193 words)

	Warrumbungle National Park
		The Warrumbungle National Park is an area of forested ridges, barren spires and deep gorges resulting from the erosion of the volcano which formed the area between 17 and 13 million years ago.
		The rich diversity of plant life in the Warrumbungle National Park is a reflection of the varied landscape and soil patterns.
		The original park area of 3360 acres was gazetted in 1953 because of its unique geology and additional areas have been added to this since that time.
	www.warrumbung-e.schools.nsw.edu.au /WNP/NatPark.html (3151 words)

	Protected areas of Victoria (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		36 of these are National parks, totalling 25,774 km² (11.32% of the state’s area).
		The Parks are managed by Parks Victoria, a state government organisation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Protected_areas_of_Victoria_(Australia) (106 words)

	Bontebok National Park - South Africa
		Accommodation in the park is limited: caravans with foretent, each with six beds and a kitchenette, and a camping ground at the river.
		Particularly in winter and spring, the park is worth a visit, when the plains are covered with colourfully blooming wildflowers.
		Besides the bontebok, the park also has mountain zebra, springbok and other species of antelope.
	www.southafrica-travel.net /eastcape/e_bontebok.htm (163 words)

	Mt. Rainier National Park
		Rainier National Park is one of three national parks in the state of Washington and is one of America's oldest parks, one of only five founded in the 19th century.
		The first suggestions for preservation of the mountain and surrounding area as a national park were made in the early in 1883 by two foreigners, Karl von Zittel of Germany and James Bryce of England.
		While the mountain is unquestionably the centerpiece of the park, its 235,612 acres also contain mountain ranges, glaciers, rivers, deep forests, lush meadows covered with wildflowers during the summer, and over 300 miles of trails.
	www.shannontech.com /ParkVision/MtRainier/MtRainier.html (2338 words)

	Chickamauga - Chattanooga National Military Park
		Yet the concept of the park to commemorate this Union loss was the idea of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland.
		With the death of the final commissioner in 1922 control of the park reverted to the War Department.
		This would not be in federal hands until August 23, 1898, when Alfred Ochs turned over a large tract of land that he acquired from the Whiteside and Craven families.
	ngeorgia.com /attractions/chickamauga.html (1036 words)

	National Park Service: The U.S. Constitution
		Between 1974 and 1976 the Park restored the building's eighteenth century exterior appearance and retained its 1902 interior remodeling, leaving an 86' x 67' banking room on the first floor and numerous smaller rooms—used as park offices and library space—around its outer perimeter on the second and third floors.
		Although the two men had supported strong national government in the convention and had worked together to secure ratification of the Constitution, neither their constitutional philosophies nor their economic interests were harmonious.
		In adopting Hamilton's proposal and chartering the bank both the Congress and the President took the necessary first steps toward implementing a sound fiscal policy that would eventually ensure the survival of the new federal government and the continued growth and prosperity of the United States.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky2/constitution5.htm (1378 words)

	VNPA Parks protected areas
		Together these national parks and reserves ostensibly protect around 3.6 million hectares, or about 16% of Victoria, and cover around 40% of the remaining native vegetation.
		There are currently 52 national parks, 30 state parks, three wilderness parks, ww marine sanctuaries, and other areas covering approximately 3.2 hectares under Victoria's National Parks Act (1975).
		These parks are not just pieces of land critical to conservation in Victoria, they are also great places to visit, offering experiences and adventures that are all too rare in today's busy world.
	www.vnpa.org.au /theparks/protected_areas.htm (268 words)

	Olympic National Park @ National Geographic Magazine
		E-greet a friend with a delicate bunchberry blossom from the forest floor of Olympic National Park.
		He and his hiking companion had traveled to the middle of Olympic National Park in hopes of finding and remeasuring the champion subalpine fir, originally discovered in 1963.
		Other parks may boast of mountains or beaches, but none has a forest to match the qualities of this one.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0407/feature3 (1077 words)

	Yosemite National Park - California - Sierra Club
		The Committee recommends actions for Yosemite and closely follows National Park Service's (NPS) plans and studies, is active in encouraging public comment on NPS documents, and works with NPS to help develop and encourage implementation of plans to protect Yosemite.
		The result is damage to the Park's natural values, and interference with the visitor's inspirational experience.
		Another goal of the GMP is the removal of all non-essential buildings from the Park.
	california.sierraclub.org /yosemite (535 words)

	Alfred M. Landon
		Alfred Mossman Landon was born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, on September 9, 1887.
		"Alf" Landon first entered the national political arena in 1912, campaigning for Theodore Roosevelt, who was that year the Progressive party candidate for president.
		Landon was a key figure in the U.S. Republican party in the 1930s and ran unsuccessfully for president in 1936.
	www.nps.gov /elro/glossary/landon-alfred.htm (505 words)

	Book Review
		Alfred Runte, a public historian from Seattle, looms large as an expert in the history of America's National Parks.
		Dr. Runte is clearly a crusader for National Park preservation, and he asks probing questions of Yosemite's history which must be asked of all National Parks.
		If, in light of the term national park, all visitors came with the expectation of finding the best and not the worst of human endeavors, then as the author notes, something "was visibly out of control in Yosemite" (p.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/92spring/yosemite.htm (490 words)

	Walkabout - Bairnsdale
		The park was named after anthropologist and politician, Alfred William Howitt, an early settler of Lucknow who headed the party that located the remnants of the Bourke and Wills expedition.
		It offers ready access to the lakes in the south; the mountains, streams, caves, snowfields and national parks to the north; the pastoral plains of the west, and the picturesque coastline of the south-east.
		At Bairnsdale the focus is on Howitt Park, Krowathunkooloong and Mitchell River National Park.
	www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/VICBairnsdale.shtml (1750 words)

	Port Alfred - Eastern Cape Provinz, South Africa
		And Port Alfred boasts an excellent golf course too, which belongs to the top ten in the country.
		The climate in Port Alfred is, like everywhere else at the Sunshine Coast, subtropical.
		Port Alfred - Eastern Cape Provinz, South Africa
	www.southafrica-travel.net /eastcape/e_portalfred.htm (197 words)

	Secobarbitol bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon
		Alfred is a national park in Victoria (Australia), 388 km east of Melbourne.
		Alexander Morrison is a national park in Western Australia (Australia), 207 km north of Perth.
		All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the story of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post.
	www.elexi.de /en/s/se/secobarbitol.html (282 words)

	National Park Foundation
		The blood-stained diary of soldier Alfred S. Rowe, which shows the passage of a bullet through the top, is a chilling reminder of the reality of war, and the terror the soldiers experienced.
		The Trumans’ furnishings and possessions are intact and as they left them—Truman’s 1972 Chrysler Newport is parked in the garage, and his topcoat and hat are by the door—giving visitors the feeling that the Trumans have just stepped out and will soon return.
		With one shot, the nation was stunned and one of its greatest leaders silenced.
	www.nationalparks.org /ProudPartners/partner_time_adverts_ad8_3.shtml (325 words)

	NATIONAL PARKS
		For example, Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg recently bought and donated to the park six wooded acres from a private landowner whose land was inside the boundaries of the park.
		In many ways, the national parks and their gateway communities have been wed by time and necessity, and the importance of their relationship should not be underestimated.
		Park advocates and interested parties have maintained that competitive contracting must be allowed for concessionaires grossing over $2 million and that the contracting period must be reduced from 30 years to 10 or 15 years.
	www.law.fsu.edu /journals/landuse/Vol141/anss.htm (16238 words)

	National Park Service History: Directors of National Park Service
		His experience in the burgeoning urban parks field contributed to his appointment as director in July 1977, yet the most significant event of his tenure was President Jimmy Carter's proclamation of much Alaska wilderness as national monuments in 1978, doubling the acreage under NPS jurisdiction.
		Beginning as a seasonal ranger at Grand Teton National Park in 1962, Robert Stanton served the NPS as a ranger, superintendent, deputy regional director, assistant director, and regional director of the National Capital Region before retiring in January 1997.
		He was the first director without prior national park responsibilities but came with strong conservationist credentials, having served as executive secretary of the Save-the-Redwoods League in California.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/hisnps/NPSHistory/directors.htm (2181 words)

	Alfred Marshall
		The British economist Alfred Marshall is one of the greatest political economists of all times and this book represents a deep effort to address in an orderly way the many social and economical issues that were at stake at the turn of the 19th to the 20th...
		Alfred Marshall (July 26 1842 - July 13 1924) born in Bermondsey London England became one of the most economists of his time.
		The students who enter the field of economics, or any other social science disciplines that employ mathematical models in explaining the world around us, may start being suspicious about the explanation power of these models at some point.
	www.freeglossary.com /Alfred_Marshall (278 words)

	about Denali National Park
		Denali National Park and Preserve encompasses the highest mountains in the Alaska Range, including Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak, at 20, 320 ft. Numerous glaciated peaks and ridges form the backbone of the range, and give Denali it's unique scenic character.
		The United States Congress established Mt. McKinley National Park on February 26, 1917, less than a year after the National Park Service was created.
		The VTS, operated by ARAMARK, the Park concessionaire, consists of two components, a Wildlife Tour purchased through hotel companies, and a Shuttle Bus, available to the General Public for a small fee.
	www.denalicitizens.org /aboutdenali.htm (646 words)

	National Park Service History: Useful Books, Trains of Discovery by Alfred Runte
		A noted environmental hisotrian and public lecturer on the national parks, Alfred Runte lives in Seattle, Washington, where he writes and consults full time on environmental and transportation issues.
		Illustrated with period photographs, commissioned paintings, and advertising art, this new edition now includes general information (train descriptions, numbers, names and addresses of cooperating park associations) for Glacier, Grand Canyon, and Denali National Parks, all which are still accessible by rail, as well as the National Parks Program of the American Orient Express.
		Among his other works are The National Parks: The American Experience and Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/hisnps/NPSBooks/runte3.htm (166 words)

	Maclay Gardens State Park Celebrates 50th Anniversary - 01/24/04
		A commemorative ceremony featured a reenactment of the original dedication of the state park, along with the unveiling of a plaque marking the inclusion of Maclay Gardens to the National Register of Historic Places.
		The park is famous for its beautiful gardens, created by New York financier Alfred B. Maclay.
		Park visitors can see 100 varieties of Camellias, 50 varieties of Azaleas and more than 160 other species and varieties of plants.
	www.dep.state.fl.us /SECRETARY/news/2004/jan/0124.htm (370 words)

	Finnish Place Names
		A ranch south of Lago Viedma in the Los Glaciares National Park, Province of Santa Cruz in Patagonia founded by Alfred Waldemar Ramström (b.
	www.genealogia.fi /place/placearge.htm (48 words)

	Britain's Lake District National Park
		For the British, who more than any other nationality adore the long hike, the pleasant amble and the brisk walk as three of the things people were put on earth to do, the park is the Holy Grail of ambulation.
		The place is called Lake District National Park, and of all the national parks that The Cultured Traveler has and will profile, this one seems to encompass more attributes and command more affection than any other.
		It is the largest natural preserve in the U.K. and a huge tract by that country’s standards: If the U.S. were to set aside a national park that was as proportionate to its total area as Lake District National Park is to the U.K., it would cover an area the size of
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Parks/Archives/Lake_Dist.htm (847 words)

	Rocky Mountain National Park Information Page
		In 1909, Mills first proposed that the area become the nation's tenth national park to preserve the wildlands from inappropriate use.
		Manufactured in Dubuque, Iowa, the 1932 Snowgo, parked in the Headquarters parking area, was an "experimental" machine used to clear Fall River Road in 1931.
		Largely due to Stanley's efforts, the Estes Park Protective and Improvement Association was established to protect local wildflowers and wildlife and to improve roads and trails.
	www.rocky.mountain.national-park.com /info.htm (3003 words)

	A New Realm Media Production I Australian National Parks
		For Australia has one of the largest and greatest national park systems in the world, covering over 24 million hectares, with such diversity as lush rain forest to waterless desert.
		The outstanding natural and cultural values of our national parks have led to many being proclaimed World Heritage Area's.
		The experiences and observations of Australia's rugged landscape have always remained with me, and today it is a pleasure to write about one of Australia's finest aspects.
	www.ciaodarling.com /australiannationalparks/home (203 words)

	RESTORE: Maine Woods National Park: Publications
		A thoughtful critique of the working forest in its declining years and analysis of the benefits/costs of creating a new 3.2-million acre national park in northern Maine.
		Neil is too pessimistic about creating a national park in the Maine Woods.
		A useful update of the Baxter Park story since John Hakola's Legacy of a Lifetime, but I wish she had spent as much time talking to participants as researching in the library.
	www.restore.org /Maine/books.html (2734 words)

	The Gettysburg National Military Park Virtual Tour
		Fought during the first three days of July 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg was one of the most critical battles of the war and occurred at a time when the fate of the nation hung in the balance, the summer of 1863.
		We intend to let the Yankey Nation feel the sting of the War as our borders has ever since the war began." Despite the feelings of retribution that Landers and his fellow soldiers had, on June 21, General Lee issued Order No. 72, which forbade the seizure or theft of private property.
		We are fortunate today to have their stories, testimony that bears out the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg and the spirit of unity in a nation undivided.
	www.nps.gov /gett/getttour/main-ms.htm (2346 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: National Park Ranger : An American Icon
		National Park Service rangers are consistently the most admired people and the most admired agency.
		This book is full of wonderful photos that tell the history of national park rangers, as well as some interesting text.
		The mission of the National Park Service to preserve and protect our natural and cultural resources for future generations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570983925?v=glance (1068 words)

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