[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 12, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 9899-9900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6031]



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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Proclamation 6870 of March 8, 1996

                
National Park Week, 1996

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                For millions of visitors every year, America's 369 
                national parks serve as living examples of the 
                diversity, history, and natural wonders that have 
                always defined this country. We owe a debt of gratitude 
                to the men and women of the National Park Service, 
                whose outstanding work to preserve and protect these 
                treasures ensures that they will be available to 
                educate and enrich generations of Americans to come.

                The National Park Service also reaches beyond the 
                boundaries of our parks to share knowledge and 
                expertise with other nations, State and local 
                governments, American Indian tribes and Alaska Natives, 
                agencies, and thousands of organizations and 
                individuals. National Park Service programs are helping 
                community leaders to create green spaces in urban areas 
                from Seattle to Philadelphia; to rehabilitate the 
                historic canal in Augusta, Georgia; and to return grey 
                wolves to Yellowstone, red wolves to the Great Smoky 
                Mountains, big horn sheep to the Rocky Mountains, and 
                the peregrine falcon to parks nationwide.

                Our national parks benefit from the work of many 
                citizens dedicated to environmental stewardship and 
                historic preservation. By working directly with the 
                National Park Service or through the National Park 
                Foundation, its congressionally chartered nonprofit 
                corollary, park partners sponsor educational programs, 
                raise funds, provide visitor services, and donate time 
                and materials to support our great public resources. 
                These partners include the Student Conservation 
                Association, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the 
                National Trust for Historic Preservation, and hundreds 
                of other interested organizations. Drawn from 
                corporations, associations, and communities everywhere, 
                over 100,000 Americans volunteer annually to keep our 
                park system strong.

                This year, National Park Week is dedicated to 
                recognizing and celebrating the commitment of the 
                National Park Service and its partners to America's 
                unique historical, cultural, and natural heritage. I 
                urge all the people of the United States to learn more 
                about our national parks, the programs available in 
                their communities, and to seek out opportunities to 
                become a national park partner.
                
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                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 April 22 through April 28, 
                1996, as National Park Week.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen 
                hundred and ninety-six, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and twentieth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 96-6031
Filed 3-11-96; 8:45 am]
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