Source Notes
Title:
Report Highlights $2.5 Billion Worth of Job-Creating Projects in National Parks.
Summary:
A report conducted by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), which highlights the prospect of job-creating projects in National Parks, encourages the Obama administration to include national parks in economic recovery legislation.
Topic:
A study by NPCA highlights the prospect of job-creating projects in National Parks.
Category:
Institutional.
What is it?
Press Release by the NPCA.
Published by the National Parks Conservation Association on December, 18, 2008.
Andrea Keller Helsel.
http://www.npca.org/media_center/press_releases/2008/stimulusreport_121808.html
Accessed:
February, 2, 2009.
Working Assets: Reinvesting in National Parks to Create Jobs and Protect America’s Heritage, a report by the NPCA.
Tom Kiernan, President of the NPCA.
U.S. National Park System: An Economic Asset at Risk, a recent study commissioned by the NPCA.
Sources cited in this work are internal documents/personnel from the NPCA. The primary topic of the press release is a report conducted by the NPCA entitled: Working Assets: Reinvesting in National Parks to Create Jobs and Protect America’s Heritage. The report details the potential for job-creating projects in National Parks, claiming that such projects would create $2.5 billion in new jobs. The report highlights that road repairs, accessibility improvements, historic building preservation, and construction of employee housing as examples of ready-to-go national park projects. “In total, these investments will create economic activity, including upwards of 57,000 jobs, and address critical park needs”. The U.S. National Park System: An Economic Asset at Risk , another report commissioned by the NPCA contributes the assertion that “every federal dollar invested in national parks generates at least four dollars economic value to the public”. To conclude, Tom Kiernan, the President of the NPCA, commentates on great opportunity that the Obama Administration has to provide much needed restoration to national parks and stimulate the economy in the same instance.
The NPCA is a non-profit organization that provides information on U.S. National Parks and campaigns to protect them (www.quantcast.com). With an audience of 27,089 U.S. monthly people, The NPCA attracts a more educated, fairly wealthy, and slightly female slanted crowd (www.quantcast.com).
This source employs hard numbers, clear examples, and valid sources, making it very relevant and useful for my argument. The full text of documents discussed in the press release is available through hyperlink directly on the page. The full text cites instances in Maine, California, Montana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and so on. If funding was to be provided by the federal government for these projects, then both restoration and economic stimulus could occur.
Works cited:
www.npca.org
March 13, 2009 at 9:11 am |
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