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| | Erich Veyhl: National Natural Landmarks - Takings by Quicksand |
 | | The goal of S.3105 is "to provide for a highest degree of protection and preservation of the Nation's heritage of natural and historic places" which include "units of the National Park System, national historic and natural landmarks, and sites on the National Register of Historic Places". |
 | | The Natural Landmark Program, unlike the parallel Historic Landmark Program, has no enabling legislation authorizing the program, even though the Park Service cites the Historic Sites Act of 1935 "to preserve for public use historic sites, buildings and objects of national significance". |
 | | After all, the NNL Program was started because, as Ronald Foresta lamented in America's National Parks and Their Keepers (1984), "too much of the nation's land had passed into private ownership", and even in the early 1960's they knew that the cost of direct acquisition was too much. |
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