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5 Congressional Record-Senate, 6 August 1992. 6 National Park Service, “Designation of National Park System Units,” http://www.nps.gov/legacy/nomenclature.html, 28 March 2000. 7 Mary French Rockefeller owned seventy-eight acres including the Mansion grounds. Laurance Rockefeller had acquired much of the forest acreage from Billings Farm, Inc. in 1974. About a year after the designation of the park, LSR acquired a remaining parcel from the estate of Mrs. John French, Mary’s sister-in-law, to complete the 555-acre donation to the United States. 8 Language regarding the purposes and restrictions of the zones is part of the park’s legislation, Public Law 102-350. 9 Prior to enactment of park legislation, LSR pledged to match 50 percent of the cost of the GMP/EIS process, up to $200,000, to expedite its prompt completion—see Laurance S. Rockefeller to Sen. Leahy, Sen. Jeffords, and Rep. Sanders, 21 November 1991. Executive Director (later President) David Donath of the Woodstock Foundation served on the General Management Plan team, providing a liaison between LSR and the National Park Service (NPS) planners. Because of this collaboration, the Billings Farm & Museum was listed as a co publisher of the plan-see Draft General Management Plan / Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Billings Farm & Museum, and National Park Service-Boston Support Office, April 1998) [hereafter, DGMP]. 10 DGMP, 63-74. 11 DGMP, facing page 1. 12 “Standards for Rehabilitation,” in Charles A. Birnbaum and Christine Capella Peters, eds., The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes (Washington: Department of the Interior, 1996), 48. 13 In 1998, NPS Director Robert Stanton authorized renaming as the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion, and accordingly a new National Historic Landmark (NHL) plaque was cast and mounted on the Mansion in time for the park opening. This renaming was intended to be the first step in the process of (1) renaming the NHL, and (2) renaming the park. To date the park has been officially renamed, but the NHL has not. See NPS Director to MABI Superintendent, 10 February 1998, MABI. Congress confirmed the renaming of the park as part of the FY1999 omnibus budget bill. 14 1999 Annual Report, 13. 15 DGMP, 27. AFTERWORD 16 Roy Thomas, interview by John Auwaerter, 18 December 2000, Woodstock; Janet Houghton, e-mail communication with John Auwaerter, 4 February 2002. 17 The railings were installed in 2000. Roy Thomas (Resortscapes) “NPS Grounds Maintenance: Midseason Meeting” [internal memorandum] 2 August 2000, 2, Resortscapes, Inc. files. 18 U.S. Department of the Interior Monthly Public Use Report for Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, December 2000, filed 17 January 2001. 19 Roy Thomas, NPS Grounds Maintenance: Mid-season Meeting, 2 August 2000. By 2002 the organic turf-management program needed adjustment because it was not adequate for the high standard of turf quality required at the Mansion grounds; more aggressive weed and pest management, and replacement of some degraded turf areas were required. 20 John Elder, Remarks at the Dedication of Marsh- Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, 5 June 1998. MABI. 219
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