The
National Park Service and its partners are hosting a special 90th
Anniversary Summer Speaker Series as part of the year-long celebration
of this significant milestone in Denali National Park and Preserve’s
history. The series will feature seven Alaskan authors who have
written about Denali’s cultural heritage and natural history from
a variety of viewpoints. The presentations will take place in the
Denali Visitor Center’s Karstens Theater approximately every two
weeks and are free of charge. Frank Norris, National Park Service
historian and author of Crown Jewel of the North: An Administrative
History of Denali National Park and Preserve, Volume I, will open
this special series on Tuesday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m. His program,
entitled “Managing Denali – 90 Years of Challenge and Hard Work”,
is a broad overview of the park’s history, spotlighting key decisions
and themes that have brought the park to its present day status.
The highly acclaimed first volume of Norris’ meticulously researched
administrative history, published in 2006, examines how the park
was conceived, established, and managed up to the passage of the
Alaska National Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) in 1980. A limited
number of copies will be available for distribution and signing
after the presentation. Volume Two will cover park management from
the passage of ANILCA to the present, and is scheduled to be published
in late 2007. Norris works in the National Park Service's regional
office in Anchorage. He's been an Alaska resident since 1983 and
has written books and articles about homesteading, Alaska movies,
gardening, and the Klondike gold rush. The schedule for the rest
of the speaker series is being finalized, and will be posted on
the park’s website at www.nps.gov/dena, along with additional information
on the park’s anniversary. The legislation creating the original
Mount McKinley National Park was signed into law on February 26,
1917. General information on the park and other activities is also
available on the web site, or by calling the park headquarters at
(907) 683-2294 from 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. daily.
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