[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 74 (Monday, April 18, 1994)]
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Part V





The President





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Proclamation 6670--
National Park Week, 1994

Proclamation 6671--Death of Those Aboard American Helicopters in Iraq


                        Presidential Documents 


Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 74
Monday, April 18, 1994

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Title 3--
The President
                Proclamation 6670 of April 14, 1994

 
National Park Week, 1994

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Theodore Roosevelt once said that nothing short of 
                defending this country in wartime ``compares in 
                importance with the great central task of leav- ing 
                this land an even better land for our descendants than 
                it is for us . . . .'' In the movement to acquire and 
                preserve areas of outstanding scenic or historical 
                significance, Roosevelt blended science and morality in 
                a highly effective and nonpartisan way.

                The idea of creating national parks first attracted 
                attention in the second half of the nineteenth century, 
                when America's receding wilderness left our natural 
                resources vulnerable to misuse and exploitation. The 
                Yellowstone National Park Act of 1872 set aside the 
                world's first national park and led the way for Federal 
                protection of exceptional lands for public use.

                As the number of early parks increased, many recognized 
                the need for their collective management. The National 
                Park Service was created by an act of Congress signed 
                by President Woodrow Wilson on August 25, 1916. Today, 
                almost 78 years later, the National Park Service 
                oversees 367 national parks, including historic sites, 
                monuments, parks, lakeshores, seashores, rivers, and 
                scenic trails. The growth of the park system is a 
                result of the American public's desire to protect the 
                best and most significant treasures of our Nation.

                National parks across the country, from Denali National 
                Park in Alaska to Acadia National Park in Maine, allow 
                us to learn more about our environment; they teach us 
                to respect our lands and to care about endangered plant 
                and animal species. Their spectacular scenic beauty and 
                wide variety of wildlife link man and nature 
                intrinsically and universally. The cultural and 
                historic parks connect us with the spirit of our past 
                and form a national family tree, celebrating our 
                triumphs and remembering our tragedies.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim the week of May 23 through 
                May 29, 1994, as ``National Park Week.'' I encourage 
                all Americans to join me in making National Park Week a 
                truly American celebration of our heritage. We are 
                challenged to protect and preserve our parks, to 
                cherish them first, then to teach our children to do 
                the same, so that they, too, can give this gift to 
                their children.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and eighteenth.

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[FR Doc. 94-9457
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