[Talk-us] Washington, DC parks - boundary=national_park or not?

[Bill Ricker]

FWIW, aside from the obvious cases like Brian mentioned, some of the
obscure NPS managed pocket parks in and near DC are also historically
significant and not just urban amenities that happen to managed by NPS.
E.g., the NPS is actively interpreting a chain of pocket parks as
"The Civil War Defences of Washington."

https://www.nps.gov/cwdw/index.htm

These overgrown remnants of earthen Artillery "forts" (most little more
than mutually supporting redoubts) will look like ordinary municipal parks
or more likely small urban wilds on first glance. However they have NPS
rangers and historians treating them as a national battlefield park
necklace, similar to the famous Olmstead emerald necklace regional park
here in Boston.

(And a nice series of on-site FB videos by a ranger & historian duo.)

(NPS is even providing interpretation for some in cooperation with a
municipal owner, in which case those likely won't show on a federal land
layer.)

If the District of Columbia achieves statehood as Washington,  Douglass
Commonwealth, soon - the Bill has passed the House - many of the
intersection greens in L'Enfant's boulevards currently managed by NPS may
come well devolve to the upgraded State/Municipal authority's management,
with only the truly historical ones staying under NPS.

Although one could equally well argue in good faith that any green laid by
L'Enfant's plan =is= historic.


On Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 22:37 Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Interestingly, the National Park Service says[1]: "The President of the
> United States lives in a National Park" (referring to President's Park).
>
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