National Park Service
The Division of Park Planning and Special Studies in the National Park Service develops policies and guidelines for planning existing units of the National Park System and for studies of potential new parks, heritage areas, wild and scenic rivers, and national trails.
Goals
To develop an updated planners sourcebook to help practitioners more effectively produce management plans that reflect a commitment to civic engagement. We are proceeding with several management plans for "icon" parks related to citizenship including the Statue of Liberty, George Washington Birthplace, Minute Man, Valley Forge, and several civil war battlefields. We also are working on management plans for sites that address special challenges of citizenship such as the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho where American citizens of Japanese descent were detained in WWII.
Planning program standards were adopted in August, 2004. Work is in progress on sourcebooks addressing planning process and civic engagement. We have more than 75 active General Management Planning Projects and 30 studies of potential new designations.
In the coming year we hope to complete studies about preservation and interpretation of key sites related to civil rights. To engage the public in dialogue about sites in the National Park System that illustrate challenges and opportunities about what citizenship means.
Contact Information
Warren Brown
Program Manager, Park Planning and Special Studies
National Park Service (2510)
1849 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20240
Phone: (202) 354-6972
Fax: (202) 371-1770
Email: warren_brown@nps.gov
Website: www.nps.gov