Re: [pct-l] "national monument" vs "national park".

[Stephen Stoddard <stoddars@ucs.orst.edu>]

Not all National Monuments are administered by the National Park Service.
For example, Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument is administered
by the BLM. Mt. St. Helens is a National Monument and is administered by
the US Forest Service, NOT the National Park Service.  

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Brick Robbins wrote:

> At 03:00 PM 01/07/2000 , Jonathan Ley <over_there@geocities.com> wrote:
> >St. Helens is a "national monument", not a "national park".
> >(why the USA even has this distinction is beyond me!)
> 
> They are both administered by the National Park Service, a part of the 
> Department of Interior as apposed the US Forest Service, (tree sellers) 
> that are part of the Department of Agriculture. Your Golden Whatever pass 
> should be good in all NPS administered sites (parks, monuments, national 
> historic sites, national historic battle fields...). Don't know why they 
> had problems. It could be that Mt Saint "Boom" is a "Designated Recreation 
> Use Facility" per 36CFR71.5. The same rule applies ot

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