ALAMOGORDO — Otero County commissioners have passed a resolution opposing the listing of White Sands National Monument as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Site.
“We have sent a letter to the National Parks Service and to our congressional delegation expressing our official desires that White Sands be removed from the list of those sites being considered as World Heritage Sites,” said commission chair Doug Moore. “I think this resolution does a great job in capturing our feelings.”
UNESCO’s World Heritage Site program encourages the identification, preservation and protection of cultural and natural heritage around the world. Twenty of the 851 sites are in the United States, including Independence Hall, the Statue of Liberty and Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Great Smoky Mountain national parks.
It’s National Park Service, by the way, not Parks.