Assateague Island Administrative History

¹Memorandum, Leslie L. Fugedy to Nathan B. Golub, Feb. 9, 1980, Resource Preservation Division files, NPS Mid—Atlantic Regional Office, Philadelphia, Pa. (hereinafter cited as RPD-MARO).

²U.S., Congress, Senate, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Assateague Island National Seashore, Hearing on S. 2128, 88th Congress, 2d Session, Aug. 11, 1964, p. 18.

³Ibid., p. 97.

⁴"Assateague Island: Challenge in Park Planning," National Parks Magazine, November 1964, pp. 4—7.

⁵Letter, Bertrum C. Roberts to Col. Frank W. Rhea, Nov. 3, 1966, file A44, Assateague Island National Seashore headquarters (hereinafter cited as ASIS).

⁶"Assateague Ecological Studies Final Report, Part II: Environmental Threats," Contribution No. 446, Natural Resources Institute, University of Maryland, October 1970.

⁷"A Report on the Status of National Seashores on the U.S. East Coast as of Summer 1970," copy in file N16, ASIS.

⁸Robert Dolan and Bruce Hayden, "Adjusting to Nature in Our National Seashores," National Parks & Conservation Magazine, June 1974, p. 9.

⁹Gordon U. Noreau, "History of Assateague Island National Seashore" (typescript at Assateague Island National Seashore headquarters, 1972, rev. 1974), p. 21.

¹⁰Corps of Engineers, "Atlantic Coast of Maryland and Assateague Island, Virginia, Feasibility Report and Final Environmental Impact Statement," August 1980, copy at ASIS. No action had been taken by mid—1982.

¹¹"Wild Ponies Are Assured of Home on Seashore Park," The Daily Times, Salisbury, Md., May 13, 1966, ASIS clipping file.

¹²Letter, Roberts to Mike Quillen, Aug. 4, 1967, file N16, ASIS; National Capital Region Weekly Report to the Director, July 1, 1968, file A2623, ASIS.

¹³Memorandum, Roberts to Superintendent, Coulee Dam National Recreation Area, Oct. 26, 1970, file W34, ASIS.

¹⁴Letter, Associate Regional Director S. Sydney Bradford, Mid—Atlantic Region, to Keiper, Jan. 17, 1979, RPD-MARO; Ronald R. Keiper and Nick B. Hunter, "A Study of the Behavior and Ecology of the Feral Ponies, Sika Deer and White—Tailed Deer Within the Assateague Island National Seashore," Mar. 1, 1982, copy at ASIS; interview with John Karish, Apr. 19, 1982.

¹⁵Letter, Jean L. Harris to Thomas F. Norris, Jr., Aug. 8, 1978, RPD-MARO; Karish interview.

¹⁶Memorandum, Points to Superintendent, ASIS, June 17, 1976, file D18, ASIS.

¹⁷Superintendent's Annual Report, 1979 Calendar Year, Mar. 11, 1980, RPD-MARO.

¹⁸Federal Register, Mar. 17, 1982, p. 11614.

¹⁹Letter, Brooks to Junius R. Fishburne, Jr., Oct. 16, 1975, RPD-MARO; letter, Tucker Hill to Laura E. Soulliere, Mar. 24, 1978, RPD-MARO; letter, Acting Regional Director Benjamin J. Zerbey, Mid—Atlantic Region, to Assistant Manager, Mid—Atlantic/North Atlantic Team, Denver Service Center, Apr. 18, 1978, RPD-MARO; subsequent Register correspondence in RPD-MARO.

²⁰Memorandum, Maurice L. Paul to Assistant Manager, Mid—Atlantic/North Atlantic Team, Denver Service Center, July 1, 1980, RPD-MARO.

²¹Bearss, "General Background Study and Historical Base Map" (unpublished report, NPS Division of History, 1968), p. 132; Incident Report, Regional Chief Nathan B. Golub, Resources Management and Visitor Protection, Northeast Region, to Director, Northeast Region, Oct. 19, 1970, copy in NPS Office of Cultural Resources Management, Washington, D.C.

²²Orr statement, Nov. 13, 1978, RPD-MARO.

²³Letter, Clark to Acting Regional Director Nathan B. Golub, Jan. 24, 1979, RPD-MARO.