The Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service (HCRS) was an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which subsumed its functions from the National Park Service and Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. It was created by the Carter administration in 1977. HCRS, a non-land managing agency, was responsible for assuring the identification, protection, and beneficial use of our important cultural, natural, and recreational resources. HCRS offered grant assistance, technical information and guidance to those in the public and private sectors involved in conservation or recreation projects. Under the Reagan administration, and the reactionary policies of Secretary of the Interior James Watt, the National Park Service absorbed HCRS in 1981 and largely obliterated the legacy of HCRS'