[Assignment: 48-DPA-08-23-07_SOI_K_Yosemite_Event] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Yosemite National Park, California, [where he joined National Park Service Director Mary Bomar, California Congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon, and other officials at a press conference announcing more than 200 proposed "ready to go" projects to be undertaken in National Parks around the country as part of the National Park Centennial Initiative. The Initiative, launched the previous August, is designed to prepare National Parks for another century of conservation and preservation in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016.] [48-DPA-08-23-07_SOI_K_Yosemite_Event_IOD_2256.JPG]

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Subject: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Yosemite National Park, California, [where he joined National Park Service Director Mary Bomar, California Congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon, and other officials at a press conference announcing more than 200 proposed "ready to go" projects to be undertaken in National Parks around the country as part of the National Park Centennial Initiative. The Initiative, launched the previous August, is designed to prepare National Parks for another century of conservation and preservation in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016.]

Photographer: Tami Heilemann--Interior Staff
[Assignment: 48-DPA-08-23-07_SOI_K_Yosemite_Event] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Yosemite National Park, California, [where he joined National Park Service Director Mary Bomar, California Congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon, and other officials at a press conference announcing more than 200 proposed "ready to go" projects to be undertaken in National Parks around the country as part of the National Park Centennial Initiative. The Initiative, launched the previous August, is designed to prepare National Parks for another century of conservation and preservation in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016.]