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Guadalupe Mountains National Park land purchases advance
The National Park Service plans to buy nearly all remaining land for Guadalupe Mountains National Park from J. C. Hunter Jr. The final option completes ownership and triggers park establishment with $1,015,000 in the 1970 budget from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, needing congressional approval.
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National Park Service
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
the Park Service
Richard C. White
J. C. Hunter Jr
National Park
Hunter
Interior
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
White
Congress
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Texas
Big Bend