The Government wants comments on future U.S. World Heritage Nominations

The National Park Service is seeking public comment on possible future U.S. nominations to the UNESCO World Heritage List, as well as on potential additions to the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List (the official list of potential nominations to the World Heritage List). 

Jefferson's Poplar Forest

on the U.S. Tentative List

The Federal Register Notice seeking public comment is available on-line here:

http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-31316.htm

Comments are due by January 12, 2011.

This past July, the World Heritage Committee inscribed the first new U.S. site to the World Heritage List in 15 years - the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii."

For more information on World Heritage in the United States, see:

http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/worldheritage/worldheritage.htm

Undersea life at Papahanaumokuakea MNM