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DesideriScuri -> RE: President renames Mt. McKinley (8/31/2015 2:25:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
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ORIGINAL: kdsub
I don't know about you but i haven't heard Denali called McKinley in a long time. I thought the request for the change was by an Alaskan Senator at the behest of the people of Alaska... so why should we care, outside of Alaska, and try to make it political?
Butch
No, at the request of an Alaskan congress woman.
She has been pushing this for 16 years, and there is no indication of an outcry among the people of Alaska.
No, at the request of the Alaskan Legislature, for more than 16 years. quote:
Alaska Board of Geographic Names attempts to change name
Ohio Congressman Ralph Regula's opposition prevented the renaming of Mount McKinley from 1975 to 2009.
Mount McKinley was commonly referred to by its Koyukon Athabaskan name Denali, especially by Alaskans, mountaineers, and Alaska Natives. In 1975, the Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed the name of the mountain to Denali[12] and, at Governor Jay Hammond's behest, the Alaska Legislature officially requested that the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN), the federal governmental body responsible for naming geographic features in the United States, change the name of the mountain from "Mount McKinley" to "Mount Denali".[13]
Action by the BGN was staved off by the determined political maneuvering of Ohio congressman Ralph Regula, whose district included Canton, where McKinley spent much of his life.[14][15] At first, BGN consideration was delayed by resistance from Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, under whose purview the BGN fell, as he personally did not favor a change of the mountain's name.[13] Later, in 1977, with Secretary Morton no longer at the helm of the Department of the Interior, the BGN again prepared to consider the name change, but Congressman Regula gathered signatures from every member of the Ohio congressional delegation warning against renaming Mount McKinley and the BGN again held off on making a ruling.[8][13] On December 2, 1980, with President Jimmy Carter's signing of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), McKinley National Park — which had been created on February 26, 1917[8] — was incorporated into a larger protected area named Denali National Park and Preserve.[16] Naming the new, larger park Denali while retaining the name Mount McKinley for the actual mountain was thought to be a compromise by many "Mount McKinley" partisans.[16][17] However, "Denali" advocates, including Alaska Congressman Don Young, vehemently disagree that the 1980 action constitutes a real compromise and instead argue that naming the mountain and park by different names only creates confusion.[17][18] While the BGN was originally set to make a ruling on December 10, 1980, with the passage of ANILCA on December 2, the BGN opted to defer their ruling.[13][19]
The following year, Congressman Regula devised a new tactic to support the Mount McKinley name. Capitalizing on a BGN policy[20] that states the Board cannot consider any name-change proposal if congressional legislation relating to that name is pending, Regula began a biennial legislative tradition of either introducing language into Interior Department appropriation bills or introducing a standalone bill that states that the name of Mount McKinley shall not be changed.[13][21] This effectively killed the Denali name-change proposal pending with the BGN.[13]
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