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<br />0.11218 <br /> <br />STATEMENT FOR MANAGEMENT - ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK <br /> <br />Mills' stalement reflects and summarizes the values and concerns, stated throughout the <br />park's legislative history, that led to the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park. <br /> <br />Various amendments, legislative acts, and proclamations followed the original act of 1915, <br />all of which must be considered and applied to the park's current purpose. Perhaps the <br />most important and influential legislation is the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), <br />establishing the National Park Service. This Act defines the mission of the National Park <br />Service as follows: "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the <br />wild life therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of same in such manner and by such <br />means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." In 1978, in <br />an act expanding Redwood Nalional Park, the National Park Service general authorities <br />were further amended to specifically mandate that all park units be managed and protected <br />n. . . in light of the high public value and inlegrity of the National Park System. . ." and that <br />no activities should be undertaken ". . . in derogation of the values for which these various <br />areas have been established, . . .n except where specifically authorized by law. <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Thus, the purpose of Rocky Mountain National Park is the preservation of its natural <br />conditions and scenic beauties, conservation of its natural and historic objects and wildlife, <br />and the provision of the freest recreational use consistent with this purpose. <br /> <br />Rocky Mountain National Park's physiographic and biologic features fall within the <br />categories defined under the National Park System's natural history themes for the Southern I <br />Rocky Mountains and include the themes of mountain systems, river systems and lakes, <br />works of glaciers, geologic history, tundra, subalpine forest, montane forest, lakes and ponds, <br />and rivers and streams. <br /> <br />The significance of Rocky Mountain National Park lies in displaying, preserving, and availing <br />for public use and enjoyment, some of the finest examples of the spectacular physiographic, <br />biologic, and scenic features that typify the soulhern Rocky Mountains. These natural and <br />hisloric resources are even more significant because of their proximily to the Front Range <br />metropolitan areas. <br /> <br />MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES <br /> <br />PRESERVE AND RESTORE THE PRE-EUROPEAN NATURAL CONDITIONS AND <br />PROCESSES OF THE PARK TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE <br /> <br />Rocky Mountain National Park was established to halt the loss of wildlife, the cutting of <br />timber, and the development of the scenic landscape for private and commercial use. <br />Natural processes have been interrupted, and years of use by tens of millions of visitors have <br /> <br />6 <br />