"His results – preservation of more wilderness than by every Congress
and president before him combined – have never been rivaled"
- John Jacobs, A Rage for Justice the Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton
"His legislation preserved nearly 5 percent of California’s landmass, and if the Alaska
bill is included – in which he played a significant, thought not decisive, role -
nearly 10 percent of the entire landmass of the United States"
- John Jacobs, A Rage for Justice the Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton, page 352
Establishes Trails in National Trail System:
Florida National Scenic Trail
Ice Age National Scenic Trail (Wisconsin)
Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail (Mississippi)
Establishes Historic Trails in National Scenic Trails System:
Oregon National Historic Trail
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (the length of the Rocky Mountains)
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (follows the Revolutionary War route of
Patriot militia men from Virginia, today’s eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to the battle of Kings Mountain, South Carolina, site of the Kings Mountain National Military Park)
Iditarod National Historic Trail (made famous by Alaskans and their dogsled team during the Gold Rush of the late nineteenth/early 20th century)
Establishes National Parks:
Biscayne National Parks
Channel Islands, California
Kenai Fjords, Alaska
Kobuk Valley, Alaska
Organ Pipe, Arizona
Establishes National Preserves (Alaska):
Bering Land Bridge
Noatak (6 million acres)
Yukon-Charley Rivers (1,700,000 acres)
Establishes National Parks and Preserves (Alaska):
Gates of the Artic (7 million acres)
Lake Clarke
Wrangell-Saint Elias
Establishes National Historic Parks:
Jean Lafitte National Historic Park, Louisiana
Kalaupapa, National Historic Park Hawaii
Women’s Rights, National Historic Park New York
Fort Scott National Historic Rights, Kansas
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park
Chaco Culture National Historic Park
Establishes National Historic Sites:
Boston African American National Historic Site, Massachusetts
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Massachusetts
Georgia O’Keeffe National Historic Site, New Mexico
Golden Spike National Historic Site, Utah
Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Missouri
James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Ohio
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Daytona, Flordia
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, New York
Establishes National Memorials:
Albert Einstein Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Kahlil Gibran National Memorial, Washington, D.C.
National Law Enforcement Heroes National Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Roger Williams National Memorial, Rhode Island
Vietnam Veterans National Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Establishes National Recreation Areas:
Chathoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia
Gateway National Recreation Area, New York
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, California
