NPS Mission - National Park Service

National Park Service FY 2013 Budget Justifications
• Provide specialized training for park and regional staff in archeological resource investigations
including training for Assistant United States Attorneys in archeological and cultural resource
cases, thereby improving resource protection through proper investigation of violations.
• Enhance investigative capabilities and information sharing between parks and bureaus through
IMARS.
• Identify potential ways to restructure or combine key training components of the Seasonal Law
Enforcement Training Program with the Land Management Police Training Program to reduce the
mandatory training time at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, GA.
• Analyze ways to reduce the existing basic law enforcement training backlog.
• Address the growing regulations backlog and work on jurisdictional issues.
• Support the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center, a Federal inter-agency training
center, to assist regions and parks with wilderness training.
• Support parks through the wilderness designation process and establish wilderness character as
a cornerstone of wilderness stewardship.
• Work with external partners to perform wilderness stewardship activities in national parks.
• Continue to meet the legal mandates, as determined by the Wilderness Act, for maintaining
wilderness character at all areas with wilderness designation.
• Place program emphasis on the 50 th anniversary of the Wilderness Act to occur in 2014.
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