"We have put almost three quarters of our land in public preservation," Ms. Whidden said.
Two years ago, there was a case before London's High Court about the massacre, and the High Court of Justice wrote on its website that "files on law and order during the Malay Emergency had been destroyed in 1966, as the files were not considered worthy of public preservation".
The alliance has called for public access, preservation of the historic sites, parkland and some modest commercial use to enable it to be self-sustaining, said Robert Pirani, director of environmental programs for the Regional Plan Association, an independent urban planning group.
The Hopewell project, which began construction about two years ago to replace leased back-office space for Merrill Lynch, also demonstrates anew how money and jobs -- in this case the threat to move 3,500 jobs to Pennsylvania -- can trump public land preservation policy.
All this, it proudly proclaimed, was carried out in "the highest and most noble form of public service the preservation of American lives and liberty".From fear set freeHarold Koh, dean of Yale Law School and a former assistant secretary of state under Bill Clinton, says that freedom from fear has been "re-prioritised" as the most important of human rights.
We suggest that the government should focus on environmental protection and public health preservation.
Therefore, policymaking should not only focus on economic growth but also address environmental protection and public health preservation.
It was an experiment, they said, to see if a claim could serve as "an unusual public lands preservation tactic," a way to keep other miners out.
Along with LWCF, the Antiquities Act is another important tool in public land preservation that allows the President and Congress to designate national monuments.
The I.R.S. has similar guidelines, with historic preservation, public recreation, protection of endangered flora and fauna and furthering a public policy, like watershed protection, among the requirements.
There may be a good public case for preservation of some open space and of truly historic buildings.
