Assateague Island Administrative History

¹"Chronology, Coastal Engineering Research Center Pier," Assateague Island National Seashore headquarters (hereinafter cited as ASIS); letter, Roberts to Director, CERC, Oct. 10, 1967, file D54, ASIS; Highlight Briefing Statement, 1967 Calendar Year, Jan. 17, 1968, file A2621, ASIS.

²"Chronology, Coastal Engineering Research Center Pier."

³Ibid.; Gordon U. Noreau, "History of Assateague Island National Seashore" (typescript at ASIS, 1972, rev. 1974), p. 23; "Engineers Abandon Plan for Pier at Assateague," The Daily Times, Salisbury, Md., Mar. 21, 1972, ASIS clipping file; Judith Colt Johnson, "Assateague, Jewel of the East Coast," National Parks & Conservation Magazine, January 1975, p. 8.

⁴Memorandum, Superintendent Thomas F. Norris, Jr., to Regional Director, Mid—Atlantic Region, Feb. 14, 1974, NPS Office of Legislation, Washington, D.C. (hereinafter cited as WASO-170).

⁵Ibid.

⁶Letter, Brooks to Herbert Sachs, June 13, 1974, WASO-170.

⁷Superintendent's Annual Report, 1976 Calendar Year, Feb. 2, 1977, file A2621, ASIS.

⁸Public Law 88—57, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890.

⁹Memorandum, Appel and Norris to Regional Director, Northeast Region, NPS, Aug. 29, 1973, Interpretation and Visitor Services Division, Mid— Atlantic Regional Office, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorandum, Dickenson and Greenwalt to Assistant Secretary, Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, Dec. 20, 1973, WASO-170.

¹⁰"Proposed Assateague Island Wilderness Area, Maryland—Virginia," DES 74—33, Mar. 20, 1974, copy in WASO-170; "Assateague Argues Wilderness Plan," Washington Post, Apr. 19, 1974, p. A28; Mike Stephens and David Parker, "Assateague: Wilderness or...,'" Washington Post, Apr. 25, 1974, p. El.

¹¹Letter, Coulter to Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton, Apr. 8, 1974, WASO-170.

¹²Letter, Morton to President Richard Nixon, Aug. 7, 1974, WASO-170.

¹³Ibid.

¹⁴"Bauman Backs One Ford Plan, Hits Another," The Daily Times, Salisbury, Md., Dec. 9, 1974, ASIS clipping file.

¹⁵Memorandum, Schmidt to Regional Director, Mid—Atlantic Region, Feb. 3, 1975, in NPS Washington Office file L1417, Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Md.

¹⁶Memorandum, Lambe to files, Sept. 10, 1975, WASO-170; S. 1332, H.R. 1704, H.R. 1907, 95th Congress, 1st Session; memorandum, Director Gary Everhardt to Legislative Counsel, May 23, 1977, file L48, ASIS; letters, Assistant Secretary Robert L. Herbst to Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., and President of the Senate Walter F. Mondale, May 11, 1978, file L48, ASIS.