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《引人入胜的历史与壮美风景》

Date: March 5, 2007

日期：2007年3月5日

Contact: Kyle Patterson, 970-586-1363

联系人：凯尔·帕特森，970-586-1363

National Park Service Historian Richard West Sellars will speak at Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium in Rocky Mountain National Park on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The talk titled “Past Perfect?: Preserving Nature and History in the National Parks” will start at 2 pm and is open and free to the public. The talk is the inaugural Randy Jones Memorial Lecture, jointly sponsored by the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West and the National Park Service.

国家公园管理局历史学家理查德·韦斯特·塞拉斯将于2007年3月13日星期二在落基山国家公园海狸草甸游客中心报告厅发表演讲。这场题为《完美过往？——国家公园中自然与历史的保护》的讲座将于下午2点开始，面向公众免费开放。该讲座是兰迪·琼斯纪念系列演讲的首场活动，由科罗拉多大学美国西部研究中心与国家公园管理局联合主办。

Sellars will discuss the history of the National Park Service’s management of natural and cultural resources. He will talk about the National Park Service Act of 1916 and the tension between public use and enjoyment of national parks and preservation of natural resources. Focusing on the 1916 Act’s mandate to leave the parks “unimpaired,” Sellars will show how the understanding of this mandate by the National Park Service shifted from its original focus on scenery and aesthetics to a broader ecological definition–and what impact this shifting had on the National Park Service’s management priorities and organizational power structure.

塞拉斯将探讨国家公园管理局管理自然与文化资源的历史沿革，重点解析1916年《国家公园管理局组织法》中公众使用享受与国家资源保护之间的张力关系。围绕该法案“保持公园原貌”的核心要求，他将阐释国家公园管理局对此的理解如何从最初的景观美学层面拓展至更广泛的生态定义范畴，以及这种认知转变对管理优先级与组织权力结构产生的影响。

In addressing cultural resources, Sellars will focus on concerns for resource integrity and authenticity–directly related to the mandate to leave the parks “unimpaired.” He will illustrate some of the complex preservation issues the National Park Service has faced, using as examples Southwestern archaeological sites; presidential homes such as the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York state, the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park in Texas (where Randy Jones once served as superintendent); and memorial sites such as the Lincoln Birthplace in Kentucky, and the Lincoln Boyhood Home in Indiana. As keepers of historic places of great importance, the National Park Service is obligated to preserve the resources unimpaired, while making them available for the public to understand the sites’ history and significance.

在文化资源保护方面，塞拉斯将聚焦资源完整性与真实性的核心议题——这与"保持原貌"的要求直接相关。通过西南部考古遗址、总统故居（如纽约州富兰克林·罗斯福故居、德克萨斯州林登·约翰逊国家历史公园——兰迪·琼斯曾任该园园长）以及纪念地（如肯塔基州林肯出生地、印第安纳州林肯童年故居）等典型案例，揭示国家公园管理局在保护重要历史场所时面临的复杂挑战，即既要确保资源完整性，又要向公众有效传递其历史价值。

Dr. Sellars is a historian with the National Park Service in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. This publication was the chief catalyst for the “Natural Resource Challenge”– a multi-year budget initiative by Congress to revitalize natural resource management and science in the national parks. To date, the initiative has resulted in a cumulative total of just under a half-billion dollars commitment. Preserving Nature, which has received international notice, is a critical study of the conflicts between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and emerging ecological concepts in the national parks, and analyzes the management of fires, predators, elk, bear, and other natural phenomena in the National Parks.

塞拉斯博士现任新墨西哥州圣达菲国家公园管理局历史学家，其著作《国家公园的自然保护：一部历史》是推动国会“自然资源挑战”预算计划的关键催化剂。该计划迄今已累计投入近5亿美元资金。这部获得国际关注的著作深入剖析了国家公园传统景观旅游管理与新兴生态理念的冲突，系统分析了火情、掠食者、麋鹿、熊等自然现象的管理策略。

Currently, Dr. Sellars is preparing a companion study to Preserving Nature–a history of evolving policies and practices in the management of historic and prehistoric sites in the National Park System. His articles on American history and on cultural and natural resource preservation have appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Wilderness, National Parks, Journal of Forestry, and Landscape.

目前，塞拉斯博士正在撰写《国家公园的自然保护》姊妹篇——研究国家公园体系内史前及历史遗址管理政策的演变历程。其关于美国历史及文化自然资源保护的论文曾发表于《华盛顿邮报》《荒野》《国家公园》《林业杂志》《景观》等刊物。

The Center of the American West takes as its mission the creation of forums for the respectful exchange of ideas and perspectives in the pursuit of solutions to the region's difficulties. The lecture series honors past park superintendent Randy Jones, who had a reputation for negotiation and mediation. Randy’s long and distinguished career with the federal government spanned over 30 years, primarily with the National Park Service. From 2002 until spring of 2005, Randy held the position of Deputy Director, the highest position for a career employee within the National Park Service, at the agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. Randy’s diverse career consisted of a number of complex and prestigious assignments including Superintendent of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Randy was among the leaders of the Natural Resource Challenge initiative for the National Park Service and was instrumental in increasing federal spending on natural resource management in the parks.

美国西部研究中心以搭建尊重性对话平台、寻求区域发展难题解决方案为使命。本系列讲座旨在纪念以善于协商调解著称的前国家公园园长兰迪·琼斯。琼斯长达三十余年的联邦政府职业生涯主要服务于国家公园管理局，2002年至2005年春季担任该局副局长（职业公务员最高职位）。他曾任落基山国家公园负责人，是“自然资源挑战”计划的核心推动者，为增加国家公园自然资源管理联邦预算作出重要贡献。

For more information about the talk contact the park information office at (970) 586-1206 or visit www.nps.gov/romo/.

欲了解更多有关会谈的信息，请致电公园信息办公室(970)586-1206 或访问 www.nps.gov/romo/。