Key Documents

All downloads are pdf files. For general information about the role these documents have played in the history of Kennecott National Historic Landmark, please review our organization's history.

Joseph Sax. Keeping Special Places Special: McCarthy-Kennicott and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve – A Great Challenge, A Unique Opportunity, November 1990.

National Park Service. "Kennicott - Alaska, A Partnership Proposal", May 1991.
(NPS proposal to Congress through the Department of the Interior)

Friends of Kennicott. "A Proposal for Ownership & Management of the Kennicott Property", December 1994.

WRST Staff in cooperation with Friends of Kennicott. "Kennecott Acquisition – Past, Present and Future", 1997.

Jarvis, Jon, former WRST Superintendent. "Meeting summary of Kennicott workshop with Friends of Kennicott", June 1998. Captures an important moment in time.

Department of the Interior press release. "Alaska's Historic Kennecott Mill Protected", June 1998. (Announcing the June 16, 1998 NPS acquisition of Kennecott)

Loso, Michael, for Friends of Kennicott and others. "Kennicott National Historic Landmark, Partnership Management Strategy", June 30, 1999.

Loso, Michael. "Vision 2000", June 2000.

Kennicott-McCarthy Study Group. "Comments on Original Kennecott Interim Operations Plan", July 7, 2000.  Includes additions and deletions suggested by an ad hoc group of Kennicott and McCarthy residents as input into the draft IOP. 

McCarthy Area Council. "Scoping comments from MAC on the Kennecott IOP revision", December 28, 2010.

Friend of Kennicott. "Scoping comments from FOK on the Kennecott IOP revision", February 14, 2011.

Current Issues, including contemporary documents