WHY DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PLAN?
• During the SHSNDs one hundred plus years of preserving history and, more particularly, after several decades of specific concentration on identifying, recording, evaluating and preserving major physical remnants of the states heritage, it has proven useful to periodically reflect on what has been done in the past and to determine appropriate directions for the future. That, basically, is the purpose of the Comprehensive Historic Preservation Plan. As a part of this reflection, long range planning for both the State Historical Society of North Dakota and for the Historic Preservation Division have been completed. • Another reason for preparing a plan, is that the National Park Service requires each of its partners in preservation to periodically undertake a review of its efforts, its needs and appropriate directions for the future. This plan fulfils that need as well as North Dakotas commitment to continuing participation in the National Historic Preservation Program established by th
