Excerpt from Arches National Park Land Protection Plan In May of 1982, the Department of the Interior published in the Federal Register a new policy statement for the use of the Federal Portion of the Land and water Conservation Fund. This new policy applies to the National Park Service and, among other things, requires that all Land Acquisition Plans be updated and revised to (1) change the name to Land Protection Plan, (2) more specifically identify the lands which need to be in Federal ownership, to achieve management purposes and public objectives, (3) use, to the maximum extent possible, cost effective alternatives to direct Federal purchase and, When acquisition is necessary, acquire only the minimum interest needed to meet management objectives, (4) cooperate with landowners, other Federal agencies, State and local governments and the private sector to manage land for public uses or protect it for resource conservation, and (5) assure that the plans for land acquisition and resource use or protection consider the attendant socio-cultural impacts and that the most outstanding areas are adequately managed. In response to the new Departmental policy, the National Park Service has withdrawn its 1979 Land Acquisition Policy and on May 11, 1983, published in the Federal Register (vol. 48, No. 92) Final Interpretive Rules for preparation of the new Land Protection Plans for each area of the National Park System having non-federal land within its boundaries. 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.