Hasnt the National Park Service discontinued establishing any new national parks?
A. The Bush Administration certainly emphasized catching up on maintenance in existing parks, rather than creating new ones. Still several new parks were created under that administration (e.g., Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park, Flight 93 National Memorial, Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, Governors Island National Monument, Carter Woodson Home National Historic Site, African Burial Ground National Monument), and the creation of others was progressed through Congress (e.g., Raisin River Battlefield, Michigan and Newtonia Battlefield, Missouri ). From all reports, it is expected the Obama Administration will be even more receptive to expanding the national park system. The creation of a new national park is ultimately a political action, which must be pursued through Congress after the required feasibility study (see Q7). On its merits there can be no doubt that Fort Monroe easily satisfies the high standards for this recognition, as was confirmed in the rec
