Clemson University is a public land-grant research university in Clemson,South Carolina. Founded in 1889,Clemson is the second-largest university by enrollment in South Carolina. For the fall 2023 semester,the university enrolled a total of 22,875 undergraduate students and 5,872 graduate students,and the student/faculty ratio was 15:1. Clemson's 1,400-acre (570 ha) campus is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The campus now borders Lake Hartwell,which was formed by the dam completed in 1962.
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government,within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The service manages all national parks;most national monuments;and other natural,historical,and recreational properties,with various title designations. The United States Congress created the agency on August 25,1916,through the National Park Service Organic Act. Its headquarters are in Washington,D.C.,within the main headquarters of the Department of the Interior.
Conrad Louis Wirth was an American landscape architect,conservationist,and park service administrator. He was the longest-serving director of the National Park Service (NPS),serving from 1951 to 1964.
Stephen Tyng Mather was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service. As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire. With his friend the journalist Robert Sterling Yard,Mather led a publicity campaign to promote the creation of a unified federal agency to oversee National Parks administration,which was established in 1916. In 1917,Mather was appointed to lead the NPS,the new agency created within the Department of the Interior. He served until 1929,during which time Mather created a professional civil service organization,increased the numbers of parks and national monuments,and established systematic criteria for adding new properties to the federal system.
A national recreation area (NRA) is a protected area in the United States established by an Act of Congress to preserve enhanced recreational opportunities in places with significant natural and scenic resources. There are 40 NRAs,which emphasize a variety of activities for visitors,including hiking,camping,boating,fishing,swimming,biking,horseback riding,and wildlife viewing,in areas that include multiple-use management for both conservation and limited utilization of natural resources. They have diverse features and contexts,being established around reservoirs,in urban areas,and within forests. Due to their size,diversity of activities,and proximity to population centers,NRAs are among the most visited units of the National Park System,with six among the thirty most visited sites.
Daniel Marc Snyder is an American businessman who formerly owned the Washington Commanders,an American football franchise belonging to the National Football League (NFL). He bought the team,then known as the Redskins,from the estate of Jack Kent Cooke in 1999. Snyder is widely considered to be one of the worst owners in the history of professional sports,with the team managing only two playoff wins and six playoff appearances in his 24 years of ownership.
Christine Brennan is a sports columnist for USA Today,a commentator on ABC News,CNN,PBS NewsHour and NPR,and a best-selling author. She was the first female sports reporter for the Miami Herald in 1981,the first woman at the Washington Post on the Washington Redskins beat in 1985,and the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media in 1988. Brennan won the 2020 Red Smith Award,presented annually by the Associated Press Sports Editors to a person who has made "major contributions to sports journalism."
The history of the National Register of Historic Places began in 1966 when the United States government passed the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA),which created the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Upon its inception,the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) became the lead agency for the Register. The Register has continued to grow through two reorganizations,one in the 1970s and one in 1980s and in 1978 the NRHP was completely transferred away from the National Park Service,it was again transmitted to the NPS in 1981.
George Benjamin Hartzog Jr. was an American attorney and Director of the National Park Service. Admitted to the bar in South Carolina in 1942,he became an attorney for the General Land Office in the Department of the Interior in 1945,and six months later transferred to the National Park Service.
Robert G. "Bob" Stanton is a retired career civil service administrator who served for almost four decades in the United States National Park Service. He was the first African American to be appointed as the Director of the Park Service,serving 1997–2001.
Arno Berthold Cammerer was the third director of the U.S. National Park Service.
William Penn Mott Jr.,was a trained landscape architect who rose to direct the California Department of Parks and Recreation and U.S. National Park Service. He earned bachelor and master degrees from Michigan State University and University of California,respectively. After graduation,he worked for the San Francisco office of the National Park Service (NPS) as a landscape architect from 1933 to 1940. He then became director of the Oakland,California Zoo. In 1962,he was hired as director of the East Bay Regional Park District until 1967. California Governor Ronald Reagan named Mott as the Director of the California Park Service in 1967,where he remained until 1985,when President Reagan named him to head the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). Mott served at the Federal level until President George H. W. Bush nominated a replacement for him in 1989. He continued to work for the NPS as a consultant until his death in 1992. His last major project was to transition the Presidio in San Francisco into a national park.
Newton Bishop Drury was the fourth director of the American National Park Service and the executive director of the Save the Redwoods League.
The Leopold Report,officially known as Wildlife Management in the National Parks,is a 1963 paper composed of a series of ecosystem management recommendations that were presented by the Special Advisory Board on Wildlife Management to United States Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall. Named for its chairman and principal author,zoologist and conservationist A. Starker Leopold,the report proved influential for future preservation mandates.
Shelton Johnson is a park ranger with the U.S. National Park Service,and works in Yosemite National Park. As of 2023 he had worked in Yosemite for 30 years of his 37-year career.
Harlean James (1877–1969) was the executive secretary of the American Planning and Civic Association,executive secretary of the National Conference on State Parks. She advocated for the expansion of parks in the United States and was awarded the Cornelius Amory Pugsley Bronze Medal Award in 1942,followed by the Cornelius Amory Pugsley Gold Medal Award in 1952 for her "years of devoted service in the interest of America's parks."
The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation was a nonprofit organization started by Daniel Snyder,controlling owner of the Washington Redskins football team. It was formed in 2014 under a climate of controversy around the name of the team,which Native American organizations such as the National Congress of American Indians consider offensive. According to a letter from Snyder,it "will address the urgent challenges plaguing Indian country based on what tribal leaders tell us they need most." In the letter to season ticket holders,announcing the Foundation,Snyder stated that he and other team representatives had visited 26 reservations in twenty states to "listen and learn first-hand about the views,attitudes,and experiences of the Tribes". The letter quotes Pueblo of Zuni Governor Arlen Quetawki,saying "I appreciated your sincerity to learn about our culture and the real life issues we face on a daily basis". Torrez-Martinez of Desert Cahuilla was quoted in the letter as saying,"There are Native Americans everywhere that 100 percent support the Redskins". Snyder also used his letter to cite instances of support for the team name by other Native Americans during his visits.
Denis P. Galvin is a career government administrator,who served as Deputy Director,and as Acting Director,of the U.S. National Park Service.
Throughout the first century of the United States National Park Service (NPS),the organization's workforce has grown more inclusive and gender-balanced. When the organization was formed in 1916,few female rangers worked within its ranks. As the organization grew,more women were hired into white-collar and clerical positions. As social activism and second-wave feminism movements gained ground in the 1960s and 70s,women were hired into more diverse occupations and leadership roles within the NPS. Today,the National Park Service still faces a gender disparity with 37% of the workforce being female and has been criticized for its response to several sexual harassment cases.
P. Daniel Smith is a longtime United States government administrator who is a former acting director of the U.S. National Park Service in the Trump administration.
