FY06 Park Significance Worksheet
Use this form to submit your Park Significance worksheet electronically! (NOTE: You will need an email address to proceed).
  1. First complete the items indicated below.
  2. When completed, press the 'Send' button found at the bottom of this form.
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Park Significance Worksheet

The 5-year (year 2005) GPRA Goal IIb1 states that "86% of park visitors understand the significance of the park they are visiting." In preparation for reporting GPRA Goal IIbI, each NPS unit must develop and determine a list of significance items. This list will be used to evaluate visitor responses based on whether they are able to identify one or more of the significance items included on the park's significance list.

Items included on this list should describe a unit's unique contribution to the National Park System. These significance items could involve such things as statements of park purpose, park significance statements, and primary park-wide interpretive themes (e.g., outstanding scenery, geology, or natural feature, unique flora or fauna, cultural/historic importance or recreational value). Examples of significance items include "the largest concentration of petroglyphs in North America", "cultural importance to Native Americans", and "one of the largest pueblo ruins of its time period."

In determining your park's significance list, you may wish to consult the following documents; Enabling Legislation, General Management Plan, Statement for Management, National Parks: Index 1997-1999, Comprehensive Interpretive Plan, and/or other relevant documents.

Please include up to a maximum of five items on this Park Significance List. Your unit's superintendent should review the completed list.

List of Park Significance items:
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