Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and
Nevada las vegas october 13. Live coverage of the debates on cspan. Listen live on the free radio app or watch anytime ondemand at cspan. Org. Wilson signedrow legislation creating the National Park service on august 25, 1916. 1916 we are featuring National Park Service Sites throughout the country. We continued with another stop on the cspan cities tour. I think everybody is just amazed it is not a widely publicized presence here. The park service doesnt advertise, so people find out about this because they read magazine articles or they see features like you are preparing. But it is not our typical colorado scenery. It is not what most people think of when they think of colorado. So it comes as a pleasant surprise to find it here. John auto was kind of a vagabond, not in the sense that he was a never do well, but he did not have any permanent roots. He was attracted to the area in 1907 by the promise of employment on a waterline project. I guess this was just the type of country that
Signed legislation creating the National Park service on august 20 5, 1916. To mark the centennial, American History tv is featuring National Park Service Sites throughout the country. We continue now with another step on the cspan city tour. I think everybody was just amazed by all of the it is not widely publicized. The park service does not advertise. People find out about this because they see articles or a feature like you are preparing. Colorado a typical scene. It is not what most people think of when they think of colorados so it comes as a pleasant surprise to most people to find it here. He was a vagabond, not in the sense he was a neerdowell. To this areated around 1907. By a water project. I guess it was just the type of country that was really him. Ling to he began to agitate for the creation of a National Park here. The first thing he did was wait a lot of letters trying to get this established as a National Park. He also constructed a lot of trails. Into the canyons and
Bison in the monument. The elks club conspired to bring in a couple of elk. John got some money from the chamber of commerce to build some fences to contain these animals. And for many years, we had a bison herd. Now, the elk kind of took one look around and said were out of here. They went on south into the high country. But oddly enough, theyre coming back into the monument now. We see more and more elk sightings. The bison we removed in 1983 because they were confined to a really small area, and they had a really adverse impact on the resource. But that was the kind of thing he did. He was constantly interested in boosting the area and promoting it and so on. But there was no concerted effort until john otto came here to set this aside as a National Park or a National Monument. A couple of distinctions between National Parks and National Monuments. One is legal, relating to the method in which its established. And the other is more based on its resource qualities. Otto agitated for
On the staff and we will be happy to give you one of these buttons and that will get you into the Museum Galleries for free today. And finally come a quick thanks to our friends from cspan who are filming the session today. They are great supporters of all the programs we do. Just a little talk about how the session will go. The author will speak for roughly 30 minutes. She likes to do things very interactively. She will speak to you about the process of doing this book and how it came about and then is open to questions from the audience. She would love to take as many questions as possible and we will have you come up to a microphone so cspan can cut catch youron question. When the question and answers are overcome i will take her to the bookstore will she will be happy to sign all of the copies of this book you will want to buy. You knowd me to let the forgotten man graphic edition is now three weeks at the top of the amazon list and New York Times list for graphic books. She is cha