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The halfway point has been reached in an extended public consultation into whether Galloway should become Scotland's third national park. NatureScot is conducting the process which ends on 14 ...
The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park is a full planning authority, exercising powers that would otherwise be exercised by the local authority, whilst the Cairngorms National Park has the power to "call in" planning decisions from the local authority where they are considered to conflict with the aims of the park. [28]
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The park was granted Dark Sky Park status ("Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park") in November 2009, being the first area in the UK to be so designated. [ 2 ] The park, established in 1947, covers 774 square kilometres (299 sq mi) [ 1 ] and receives over 800,000 visitors per year.
Dame Barbara Mary Kelly, DBE DL FRSE FRSGS (born 27 February 1940) is a Scottish civic activist. She is chairman of the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, [1] and Convener of the Crichton Foundation. [2]
The South Downs National Park local plan includes 48 new proposed site allocations. ... A consultation on the plan started on Monday and is due to end on 17 March. Tim Slaney, director at the ...
Galloway is also the setting of several memoirs, including Devorgilla Days written by Wigtownshire author Kathleen Hart, an account of life in Wigtown, Scotland's national book town. With regard to Scottish Gaelic literature , the only text known to survive in Galwegian Gaelic is a song called Òran Bagraidh , which was collected from a North ...
The National Park Service investigated the potential of a national park or national seashore recreation area on California's Lost Coast. [51] Part of the area is now protected by the Bureau of Land Management in the King Range National Conservation Area. Study of a National Seashore Recreation Area: Mobile-Tensaw Delta National Park Alabama 2013