Excerpt from National Park System Reform Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Lands, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 260, February 23, 1995 In the 15 years that I have served on this subcommittee, Con gress has added nearly 40 areas to the National Park System. Without benefit of prioritization and without regard to impacts on the current Park System, I have watched Congress establish parks ranging from multimillion-acre natural areas to sites consisting of a single building on a piecemeal, ad hoc basis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.