Excerpt from Water Resource Management Plan and Environmental Assessment; June 1984: Santa Monica Mountains, National Recreation Area/California National Park Service areas were first established in or near large cities in the early 1970's to provide additional outdoor recreation opportunities for urban residents and to preserve the best remaining significant landscapes in metropolitan areas. Recognizing the natural, cultural, and recreational values of the Santa Monica Mountains, Congress established the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in 1978. The enabling legislation (p.l. 95 - 625) instructed the Department of the Interior to manage the recreation area in a manner which will preserve and enhance its scenic, natural, and historic setting and its public health value as an airshed for the southern California metropolitan area while providing for the recreational and educational need of the visiting public. The national recreation area boundary encompasses approximately acres in the mountains and along the coast. A larger area, the Santa Monica Mountains Zone, has also been designated in state and Federal legislation. This zone, which includes the entire physiographic province of the Santa Monica Mountains incorporates approximately acres. The National Park Service (nps) assumed management of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in 1979. The nps, in cooperation with other federal, state, local and private agencies and groups has identified strategies for the management, preservation, and use of lands within the boundary. The issues and objectives for the national recreation area are identified by the National Park Service in the General Management Plan (nps, u.s. Dept. Of the Interior, This document addresses the recommended management strategies for the park, the alternatives considered for the proposed action, and the general implications, or impacts, of these proposed actions. Because the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is a relatively new unit of the National Park System, the land base is evolving. While the projected degree of Federal interest is generally defined in the Land Protection Plan (nps, u.s. Dept. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.