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Focus on the Parks from Los Angeles Were Battling Irrigation Serve a Number of Significant Objects Vol. 22 • No. 2 • Arrowhead 1 The Newsletter of the Employees & Alumni Association of the National Park Service Spring/Summer 2015 • Vol. 22 • No. 2 Arrowhead Published by Eastern National Focus on the Parks from Los Angeles were battling irrigation serve a number of significant objects. Nine and agriculture interests from the San objects associated with Kalaupapa were President Obama Establishes Joaquin Valley for water storage and diver - conserved, including a crib from Bishop sion licenses in the Kings River watershed. Home, an end table, a large poi board, Waco Mammoth NM Early assessments prepared by the Federal three ledger books from the American Power Commission showed the potential Japanese Association Hall, an Ed Kato for 19 dams and reservoirs on the south sketch and a birth certificate and passport resident Obama has designated be more than 65,000 years old. In ad - fork of the Kings River. Cedar Grove and of a Hansen’s disease patient. Pthe Waco Mammoth Site in Texas dition, both the excavation area and Tehipite Valley would be inundated—sim - One of the most unique pieces to be as one of the nation’s newest national the land around it offer an excellent ilar to Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite. conserved was the Bishop Home crib dat - monuments, permanently protecting opportunity for further exploration When these assessments proved unre - ing to the 1920s. Throughout the 20th the site where the extremely well-pre - and paleontological and geological re - liable, tourism and preservation interests century, infants born at Kalaupapa were served fossils of a herd of Columbian search. The NPS will conduct a man - seized the opening and began lobbying separated from their parents after birth for mammoths and other Ice Age animals agement planning process, working for preservation. A compromise negoti - fear that infants would contract Hansen’s have been found. Waco Mammoth closely with its two partners, commu - ated by Secretary of the Interior Harold disease. Hundreds of babies were born in National Monument is one of three nity residents and other groups that Ickes, under the direction of President Kalaupapa only to be removed from the new national monuments announced have devoted themselves to preserving Roosevelt, led to development of water by President Obama on July 10, 2015 settlement and raised by ohana (family) the site for many years. storage facilities in lower stretches of the that help tell the story of significant elsewhere. The Bishop Home crib is the “The National Park Service is proud Kings River, thereby preserving the pris - events in American history and pro - last one in existence and serves as a pow - to work in partnership with the City of tine upper watershed as a national park. tect unique natural resources for the Waco and Baylor University to protect, erful reminder of this story. benefit of all Americans. The monu - preserve and, most importantly, share • History came alive at the Fifth Annual Kalaupapa’s museum collection, first ment will be managed by the National the remarkable Waco Mammoth Na - Everglades National Park Vintage Day on managed in 1987, contains over 364,000 Park Service in cooperation with the tional Monument with the American March 7. Over 50 volunteers and six paid objects and archival documents, primarily City of Waco and Baylor University. people and visitors from around the staff brought to life the “dreamers and representing the late-20th-century expe - The other two sites—Berryessa Snow world,” said NPS Director Jonathan schemers” who left a legacy on Everglades riences of residents within the Kalaupapa Mountain National Monument and Jarvis. “The Waco Mammoth National NP ’s landscape. One highlight was a po - Settlement. As with any tropical environ - Basin and Range National Monu - Monument will engage students, visi - litical speech by early 20th-century Florida ment, the threats to wood, metal and ment—will be administered by the tors and scientists alike with the story Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, paper objects are great with heat, humid - Bureau of Land Managment and/or of these extinct mammoths. As the who promised to “save” the Everglades by ity, salt air and termites. This project is the USDA’s Forest Service. National Park Service prepares to cele - draining them (portrayed by Chief of Re - first of its kind at Kalaupapa as part of ef - The area in Texas provides a rare brate its centennial in 2016, this new source Education and Interpretation Alan forts to mitigate these threats. chance to understand and interpret the addition to our Park Service family will Scott). Conservationist Marjory Stoneman behavior and ecology of the extinct • The Border Patrol’s Ajo Station has in - help more Americans develop lifelong Douglas (portrayed by Katy Dimos) pro - Columbian mammoth. The oldest fos - relationships with parks as places where creased the size of its Horse Patrol Unit vided a rebuttal with the perspective of sils identified at the site are thought to they can discover amazing things.” n (HPU), resulting in more horseback pa - time and called for restoring the Ever - trols through Organ Pipe Cactus NM glades water flow. and less use of motorized patrol vehicles in Other voices from the past included the park wilderness. The unit uses wild Seminole leader Osceola, railroad tycoon • A unique public-private partnership gress recognized the need with a LWCF horses captured on Bureau of Land Man - Henry Flagler, author Zora Neale has blossomed in the California desert appropriation of $2.3 million to acquire agement lands. The horses are trained at Hurston, conservationist Arthur Marshall over the last decade that has led to the land at Joshua Tree and Mojave. Most of the Arizona Department of Corrections’ federal acquisition and permanent the land identified for acquisition is and martyred bird warden Guy Bradley. Also on hand were farmers, scientists, gator Florence West Facility and the Colorado preservation of over 15,000 acres of pri - owned by MDLT. Pacific West Region’s poachers, land speculators, workers from Department of Corrections’ Cañon City vate in-holdings across the vast land - (PWR) Lands Division is working to pur - the Civilian Conservation Corps, Cold prison for the Border Patrol for use on scapes of Death Valley NP , Joshua chase over 100 tracts from MDLT at War-era soldiers, conservationists and early public lands, including the monument. In Tree NP Mojave N PRES market value. The well-established col - and . park rangers. This year’s event represented addition to its regular patrols, the HPU laborative relationship that PWR Lands The parks and preserve were established over 1,000 Volunteers-In-Parks program has been collaborating with the monument and MDLT enjoy greatly facilitates the under the California Desert Protection Act hours as participants researched, rehearsed to develop an equestrian virtual trail sys - of 1994, but in the years that followed, ap - transfer of these critical lands to federal and presented their characters. tem. Riders will be able to download way - propriations for land acquisition didn’t al - ownership and protection. Since August points from the Organ Pipe Cactus website ways arrive when landowners wanted to 2014 alone, the PWR Lands Division has • More than 40,000 people gathered at to guide them on horseback along routes sell or when critical habitat was threatened finalized the acquisition of 11 tracts con - the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge laid out virtually through different areas of by development. Enter the Mojave Desert taining approximately 200 acres within next to the Selma to Montgomery NHT the park. “We are working towards having Interpretive Center for the bridge-crossing Land Trust (MDLT). Founded in 2005 by Mojave N PRES. There is one other ben - these trails open for use by fall,” says mon - Jubilee (held from March 6 through 9) to concerned local citizens, MDLT’s mission efit to this public-private partnership—all ument Supt. Brent Range. is to acquire critical habitat for permanent proceeds from the sale of MDLT’s lands commemorate the 50th anniversary of preservation in the Mojave Desert, a need to the NPS will be used by MDLT to “Bloody Sunday,” a watershed moment in continued on page 2 that cannot always be met with public dol - purchase more in-holdings from willing the civil rights movement. Local, state and lars. MDLT went to work securing private sellers in the three desert parks. Now federal officials attended a ceremony com - funds from philanthropic foundations, that’s an investment any public-private memorating the anniversary. nonprofit organizations and individual partnership would envy. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of men, donors and by 2006, had acquired its first women and children attempted to march Kings Canyon NP Upcoming Meetings property for gifting to the NPS. • marked its 75th from Selma to Montgomery to protest birthday in 2015. On March 4, 1940, Eight years and 234 transactions later, Jim Crow laws that restricted African & Events President Franklin Delano Roosevelt MDLT has transferred, mostly by dona - Americans from registering to vote. As the signed legislation creating Kings Canyon protestors crossed the bridge from Selma Rocky Mountain NP Employee/Alumni tion, over 15,000 acres to the NPS, and NP. The new park encompassed 454,000 into Dallas County, they were met with a Reunion —As part of its centennial cele - more is on the way. As of January 2015, bration this year, Rocky Mountain NP will acres of pristine Sierra Nevada wilderness. wall of state troopers and a posse organ - MDLT held over 10,000 acres in the be hosting an employee/alumni reunion Kings Canyon NP absorbed lands that ized by Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark. three desert parks and plans to convey all were once part of General Grant NP, which at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Officers ordered the participants to dis - Park, Colo., on Sept.
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