Teodorski says logging would have taken away South Carolina’s only national park.
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The U.S. National Park Service celebrated its 100th birthday on August 25th with events across the nation, including a giant, human version of it’s emblem in Washington, D.C., a naturalization ceremony on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and an outdoor concert at Yellowstone National Park.
Sandoval was at the park at an official National Parks Centennial Celebration Thursday afternoon.
“It’d be gone”, said Jim Elder, who served as president of the Congaree Swamp National Preserve Association. The boy, Jim White, would go on to play an instrumental role in establishing Carlsbad Caverns as a national park.
“There’s a wide variety of names that Congress has assigned to them, but they are all units of our national park system”.
The park service’s newest national monument, Katahdin Woods and Waters in ME, was being readied to welcome its first visitors since President Barack Obama used his executive authority to create it on Wednesday.
The brochures for the monument are printed and signs are going up, and the National Park Passport Stamp beloved by park visitors is now available.
Years later Simmons can hardly believe the national park service she loved working with so much is turning the big 1-0-0.
The governor said Interior Secretary Sally Jewell suggested the trip as the federal agency has been planning celebrations throughout the country this year to mark its centennial.
Entrance to all the national parks is free Thursday through the weekend.
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“History and Preservation of Richmond’s National Parks”, will offer a behind-the-scenes look at how the park sites are preserved, managed and interpreted.
