WORLD HERITAGE SITES:
World Heritage Sites:
(Information obtained from Wikipedia.com)
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State Parties (countries) which are elected by the General Assembly of States Parties for a fixed term.[1] The programme aims to catalogue, name, and conserve sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity. Under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund. The programme was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, which was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972. Since then, 184 (as of July 2007) States Parties have ratified the convention.
As of 2007, a total of 851 sites are listed: 660 cultural, 166 natural, and 25 mixed properties, in 142 States Parties. UNESCO references each World Heritage Site with a unique identification number; but new inscriptions often include previous sites now listed as part of larger descriptions. As a result, the numbering system currently ends above 1200, even though there are fewer on the actual list.
Each World Heritage Site is the property of the country on whose territory the site is located
, but it is considered in the interest of the international community to preserve each site for future generations of humanity.
World Heritage Sites
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site - Illinois
Carlsbad Caverns National Park - New Mexico
Chaco Culture National Historical Park - New Mexico
Everglades National Park - Florida
Grand Canyon National Park - Arizona
Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Tennessee and North Carolina
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - Hawaii
Independence Hall - Pennsylvania
Kluane/Wrangell-St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek Park - Alaska, United States, British Columbia and Yukon Territory, Canada
Mammoth Cave - Kentucky
Mesa Verde National Park - Colorado
Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville - Virginia
Olympic National Park - Washington
Redwood National and State Parks - California
Statue of Liberty - New York
Pueblo de Taos - New Mexico
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (union of Waterton Lakes (Canada) and Glacier (U.S.) parks) - Montana & Alberta, Canada
Yellowstone National Park - Wyoming and extends into Montana and Idaho
Yosemite National Park - California
The first question a normal person will have is why can't the United States take care of its own "heritage sites"? The answer is, of course, that it can and does! What is going on here is the United Nations is trying to usurp property and power from the United States, and our country twiddles it's thumbs and lets them! MM