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Grant Cottage State Historic Site is an Adirondack mountain cottage on the slope of Mount McGregor in the town of Moreau, New York. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, died of throat cancer at the cottage on July 23, 1885.
The Yellowstone National Park Protection Act was a law passed by the 42nd US Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, creating Yellowstone National Park. [1] Yellowstone was the first national park in the US and is considered to be the first national park in the world. [2] Yellowstone National Park Protection Act
A bill creating the first national park, Yellowstone, was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, followed by Mackinac National Park in 1875 (decommissioned in 1895), and then Rock Creek Park (later merged into National Capital Parks), Sequoia and Yosemite in 1890.
The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history, a $100 million gift the fundraising group described as transformative for the ...
Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho.It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress through the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
A 2023 National Park Service report said parks in southeast Utah that year drew 2.4 million visitors, directly supported 5,122 jobs and had a cumulative economic impact of more than $486 million.
Calling the gift “transformative,” the National Park Foundation said the $100 million grant is the largest donation the foundation has ever received.
Great American Outdoors Act; Long title: An Act to amend title 54, United States Code, to establish, fund, and provide for the use of amounts in a National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund to address the maintenance backlog of the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Indian ...