Parks Administration and Landscape Architecture Records, 1956-1989 and undated
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Texas. Parks and Wildlife Dept.
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The State of Texas has given the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) the responsibility for the management and conservation of the state's wildlife and fish resources; provision of outdoor recreational opportunities to the public; acquisition, development, and operation of wildlife management areas, fish hatcheries, state parks, historic sites, and other public lands; conservation education and outreach; cultural and historical interpretation; and the regulation of fishing, h...
Southwest Park and Recreation Training Institute
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Organization established in 1954 to foster, gather, and disseminate information with reference to parks and recreation facilites, grounds, programs and objectives. To work with all people particularly of the Southwest Area to encourage a greater degree of professionalism among those in the park and recreation profession, to encourage and support those colleges which train people in park, recreation and related fields. The organization holds an annual meeting at Lake Texoma Lodge in Kingston, Okl...
Texas Historical Commission
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The Texas State Historical Survey Committee was created on a temporary basis in 1953 (Senate Concurrent Resolution 44, 53rd Legislature, Regular Session) to administer a comprehensive state program for historical preservation; it was given more permanent status in 1957 (Senate Bill 426, 55th Legislature, Regular Session). The committee was composed of eighteen members appointed for six-year terms by the governor. It had the power to erect historical markers, to check the historical ...
Texas Tech University. Dept. of Park Administration and Landscape Architecture
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A part of the Texas Tech University College of Agricultural Sciences, the Department of Parks Administration and Landscape Architecture offered both undergraduate and graduate degrees. One of the first park administration and outdoor planning programs in the United States, it emphasized such areas as studies in environmental land resource and management, aerial photography, park planning, watershed management, leisure science, and open space planning. From the guide to the Parks Admi...
