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Stan Albright

Stan Albright was National Park Service Area Director for Alaska from about 1971 to 1975. He worked under John Rutter, the Regional Director stationed in Seattle. Stan came on at a time when the Alaska National Interest Lands and Conservtion Act (ANILCA) had been passed, the D-2 study teams were beginning their work, and the National Park Service in Alaska was growing out from under their supervisors at the regional office in Seattle. It was a delicate time, with considerable tensions between the federal government and local communities. Alaska was being divided up into federal management, Native private land, and state controlled land. Individual land owners were skeptical at best about their future on the land.

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Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Stan Albright	Stan Albright was interviewed on October 7, 1991 by William Schneider and Dan O'Neill in Vail, Colorado where he was attending the 75th anniversary meeting of the National Park Service. In this interview, Stan talks about his work as National Park Service Area Director for Alaska from about 1971 to 1975. A predominant theme in this interview is how poorly the National Park Services' Alaska Task Force teams worked with the Alaska Area Office staff. Although he did not give any specifics and tended to talk in general terms, Stan emphasized that the Alaska Task Force study teams could have avoided much trouble by drawing on the local National Park Service's expertise. As Area Director, he had a different approach to the selection of new park areas than some of the task force members. He suggests that the study team may have wanted to go for more far-reaching changes than he did. Often during the interview he talked around issues, using few specific examples, and was obviously uncomfortable with disclosing details that would point a finger at others in the Park Service.	91-22-30	Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve	Oct 7, 1991