Sentences with phrase «for national monuments»

And, in Golden Gate, all of those things are here — whether it's Fort Point and its amazing history of coastal defense; or it's Alcatraz, with its multi-layered history; or Muir Woods, that really is, in some ways, the heart of the whole movement for National Monuments to be established.
Cockerell may well have tipped the balance of opinion towards park service takeover, for in 1938 the NPS made the decision to take the excess lighthouse property and ask for national monument status.

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Five designs for «The Wall» — a national prayer landmark — were unveiled in Parliament.The monument is the brainchild of former Leicester City football...
So for the past three years, dozens of Christians from GKI and HKBP have been gathering on Sundays to worship in a plaza near the country's national monument and presidential palace as a way to protest the local government's inaction.
The Republic of Turkey has recognized that the waqfs constitute a great part of the national fortune of the country and has undertaken a careful administration of waqf funds, even founding a bank to care for the funds and use the income for the care and preservation of historical mosques and monuments, many of which are now being restored.
As CEO of Patrick Properties Hospitality Group, Randall Goldman has for two decades carried out the vision of lovingly restoring Charleston's most historic properties, shaping distressed heirlooms into national monuments of preservation and valuable generators of revenue for the surrounding community.
As we celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service (NPS) and its stewardship of the over 400 national parks, monuments, and recreation areas covering more than 84 million acres, the Arlington Heights Park District announces the launch of a new community - wide effort taking steps to end hunger for families locally and to put shoes on the feet of people around thNational Park Service (NPS) and its stewardship of the over 400 national parks, monuments, and recreation areas covering more than 84 million acres, the Arlington Heights Park District announces the launch of a new community - wide effort taking steps to end hunger for families locally and to put shoes on the feet of people around thnational parks, monuments, and recreation areas covering more than 84 million acres, the Arlington Heights Park District announces the launch of a new community - wide effort taking steps to end hunger for families locally and to put shoes on the feet of people around the world.
Through 2009, the National Park Service plans to phase in higher rates for annual park passes and fees paid per vehicle or person at about 130 of the 390 parks, monuments and other areas the agency manages.
Even before Trump officially opened his high - profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show.
«Our national parks, monuments and historic sites are a sacred trust for our kids and for future generations,» said Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
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The National Park Service also has a drone ban in place, so state parks, national parks, and monuments are a no - go zone for your neNational Park Service also has a drone ban in place, so state parks, national parks, and monuments are a no - go zone for your nenational parks, and monuments are a no - go zone for your new drone.
October 27: Take to the trails on the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, the conservationist president who reserved 230 million acres of land for national parks, forests and monuments.
The national monument designation comes with a mandate for more funding for law enforcement, which means more eyes on the ground to keep fossil thieves at bay and more money for education «so that people know there are fossils out there,» Gay says.
«Diverse communities across the desert fought for over a decade to designate all three of our California desert national monuments,» Mojave Desert Land Trust Executive Director Danielle Segura told the Highland Community News in California on Wednesday.
And I think that this combination of his public service in Washington — he advised, for example, presidents on developing [the] U.S. Park System, protecting U.S. national monuments.
Indeed, that the biology business has managed to avoid the truth for all these decades is truly a monument to intellectual lassitude, bureaucratic form - over-content manuscript refereeing («I haven't seen this viewpoint in the National Enquirer yet, so it must be wrong») and institutional ignorance.
In 1972, the garden was designated a natural monument, a first for a national university botanical garden.
Most recently, it has signed on to a lawsuit against the Trump administration for overstepping presidential power with the national monument decision.
Pet policies for US National Parks, Forests, Recreation Areas, Seashores, Monuments, Historical Parks and Historic Sites.
For Vernon Lee of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, a national monument designation for Gold Butte would be the next best thing to having the U.S. government return the land to his peopFor Vernon Lee of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, a national monument designation for Gold Butte would be the next best thing to having the U.S. government return the land to his peopfor Gold Butte would be the next best thing to having the U.S. government return the land to his people.
May 30, 2016 • President Obama may use his executive authority to declare the site of the Stonewall riots in New York City as the first national monument dedicated to the struggle for LGBT rights.
You will be in for a massive action movie that will most likely have cheesy dialogue, implausible situations, massive explosions and some destruction of national monuments.
No doubt Emmerich said when conceiving this movie, «I want to show big scenes of mass chaos and devastation to New York and the national monuments, and will use the global warming premise as a means to make everyone flock to my movies once again to have a front row seat to the deaths of millions of people for their viewing pleasure.»
Visit the National Park Service's Plan Your Visit website to download Muir Woods visitor brochures in seven different languages and visit the Muir Woods Centennial site for more information about the Centennial, including a 100 - year chronology and historic resource study of the monument.
Turn right onto NM 22 and follow signs for Cochiti Pueblo and the national monument.
One of the largest in the grove, this tree was dedicated to Gifford Pinchot, who along with William Kent and John Muir, was instrumental in gaining protective status for the Muir Woods as a national monument.
The accommodations in Yellowstone National Park aren't just places to stay, they are monuments to a long - standing ideal that special places in the world should be set aside and preserved for future generations.
For many visitors to Australia, the majestic Ayers Rock seems like a long haul from the most popular urban centres of Sydney, Melbourne and Cairns, but a flight over this national monument is a convenient way to see this stunningly beautiful area.
Between our second and third dive, we visit Half Moon Caye National monument for lunch on the beach.
ANILCA redesignated the monument as Katmai National Park «to protect habitats for, and populations of, fish and wildlife including, but not limited to, high concentrations of brown / grizzly bears and their denning areas; maintain unimpaired the water habitat for significant salmon populations; and to protect scenic, geologic, cultural, and recreational features.»
You can find more detailed information about the monument expansions and the reasons for them in Isolated Paradise: An Administrative History of the Katmai and Aniakchak National Park Units.
Announcing the African - American Cultural Heritage Action Fund National Trust for Historic Preservation You can help save the irreplaceable historic buildings, monuments, communities and landscapes that the National Trust for Historic Preservation has designated National Treasures.
However, two years later a local water company sued Kent to condemn the canyon for a reservoir, when Kent asked President Roosevelt for help in declaring Muir Woods a national monument in 1908.
Have a picnic up at Rhodes Memorial or lunch at the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant, go for a jog around Rondebosch Common (a national monument), watch a show at the Baxter Theatre, or enjoy a cup of coffee at Commonground Café situated above the Commonground Church.
Beautifully designed and housed in one of the wings of a 15th - century Medieval palace, guests staying at the Parador de Olite Hotel are in for a real treat, as you get to stay in one of Spain's national monuments.
You can take a trip to the Giftun Island national park, the monastery of St. Anthony and St. Paul, as well as the city of Luxor which, as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, has innumerable ancient monuments for you to explore!
Some 35 years after her grandfather's exploration of the Blue Hole, Alexandra Cousteau, who works closely with Oceana as a senior advisor, visited Belize for the first time and was thrilled to observe that in those years, this national living monument seemed to have changed very little from what she had seen in «The Sunken Caves» documentary.
Well known as a great destination for relaxing beach holidays, it also offers many sporting activities, some of the world's most important ancient monuments and an extremely varied national cuisine.
The destruction of the Moh Hul monument in northern Belize, has garnered much national and international attention — outrage rather, as a portion of the late pre-classic Mayan temple was demolished for road fill.
This national monument is famous for its atmosphere and world - class service and facilities.
«This project is particularly exciting as it is a conversion of the former ministry of justice building, a national architectural heritage monument, into a Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Tbilisi,» said Peter Norman, senior vice president of development for Hyatt — Europe, Africa and Middle East.
Jevrić's series of Proposals For Monuments were initially created in response to national competitions for commemorative memorials remembering the suffering of Yugoslavians during the second world wFor Monuments were initially created in response to national competitions for commemorative memorials remembering the suffering of Yugoslavians during the second world wfor commemorative memorials remembering the suffering of Yugoslavians during the second world war.
NYC Parks launched its Art in the Parks program in 1967 and now oversees more than 800 permanent monuments and dozens of temporary artworks each year and, through its collaboration with the National Park Service on the Jamaica Bay - Rockaway Parks, provided additional support for Rockaway!
Chesterwood in Stockbridge, MA is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and was the summer home, studio and gardens of America's foremost sculptor of public monuments, Daniel Chester French.
The developing story of the national reassessment of disgraceful Confederate monuments has productively unearthed, for the general public, the symbolic power of art and its propagandistic role in perpetuating systems of power and control.
The Kemper Museum is hoping an exhibit of sculptures calling for more monuments dedicated to Native Americans at The National Mall in Washington, D.C., will build community engagement over the issue of Native American representation in American culture.
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Bonnie Burnham, a board member at the school and the president and chief executive officer of the World Monuments Fund said in a release that she hopes the decision by the National Trust for Historic Preservation «will help raise awareness of the Whitney Studio's important history and the need for restoration.»
This week, highlights include news that President Obama created a national monument, will honor artists Jack Whitten and Ralph Lemon with the National Medal of Arts, and is expected to ring a historic church bell at the dedication ceremony for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and national monument, will honor artists Jack Whitten and Ralph Lemon with the National Medal of Arts, and is expected to ring a historic church bell at the dedication ceremony for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and National Medal of Arts, and is expected to ring a historic church bell at the dedication ceremony for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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