Excerpt from Preventing Cultural Resources Destruction: Taking Action Through Interpretation

The National Park System currently has over 350 units. Each contains at least some evidence of past human activity, and most provide some degree of interpretation about the cultural resources dates and events, people and lifestyles.

But what are we doing in the National Park Service to increase public awareness of the need for preserving these fragile non-renewable resources? What are we doing to explain the purpose behind laws Congress has enacted to protect them?

As a federal land management agency, we are directed to educate the public about cultural resources and to foster an appreciation of their scientific, ethnic, and aesthetic values. We strive to help them develop a stewardship ethic toward cultural resources. We want the public to recognize the need for laws to protect these resources, and to understand the meanings of the laws and how they are enforced.

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