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I also Wondered if the National Park system could benefit from citizen advisory groups, individuals who could look over the shoulders of the Park authorities to see how Park policies and plans are impacting the Parks themselves and the public whose interests the Parks serve. Of course members of an advisory group, to have any credibility with the public, would be required to refrain from attempting to or acquiring Park lands—for life. And they would need to be free to question about and discuss with the Park employees anything they felt important. If there were such a group in Virginia, it could help promote schemes which would assist the Park authorities in acquiring the lands they need without necessitating amputations of existing Park land in the process.
We tend to forget that Park lands were once private, that individuals were sometimes driven out of their homes and off their lands to make the acquisition of the Park possible. How would one of those individuals and one’s descendants feel if tfjey observed the land they were forced to relinquish for "Park” some time later handed to “them" for whatever use they could arrange for it? A public policy that makes such a circumstance possible can engender a want of faith in our institutions and in those charged with the disinterested performance of their duties as servants of the public.
DIANA W. BIRD Washington
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