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The Birth of the National Park Service. Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1985. Albright, Horace M, and Marian Albright Schenck. Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Berkowitz, Paul D. The Ranger Image and Noble Cause Corruption in the National Park Service. Walterville Oregon: Trine ...
Rocky Mountain National Park. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020 This text is from Rocky Mountain National Park: a History by Curt Buchholtz; Buckley, Jay H.; Nokes, Jeffery D. (March 28, 2016). Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-61069-732-3.
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the US Department of the Interior.The service manages all national parks; most national monuments; and other natural, historical, and recreational properties, with various title designations.
In 1872, Yellowstone National Park was established as the United States' first national park, [31] being also the world's first national park. In some European and Asian countries, however, national protection and nature reserves already existed - though typically as game reserves and recreational grounds set aside for royalty, such as a part ...
The National Park Service investigated the potential of a national park or national seashore recreation area on California's Lost Coast. [48] Part of the area is now protected by the Bureau of Land Management in the King Range National Conservation Area. Study of a National Seashore Recreation Area: Mobile-Tensaw Delta National Park Alabama 2013
Enos Abijah Mills (April 22, 1870 – September 21, 1922) was an American naturalist, author and homesteader. He was the main figure behind the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park.
The National Park Service, established in 1916, assumed administration of the park. The creation of the park was an early success of the conservation movement. Its national park status may have helped thwart proposals to dam the Colorado River within its boundaries. (Later, the Glen Canyon Dam would be built upriver.)
The site is owned and operated by the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia, also serving as a unit of Colonial National Historical Park. [64] John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Massachusetts: 0.09 acres (0.00036 km 2) John F. Kennedy was a part of the Kennedy political family and served as the 35th President of the United States.