With so many parks and monuments to visit, there are destinations to fulfill the wanderlust and curiosities of every kind of road tripper, explorer, and casual tourist.
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We can all find ways to enjoy these benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation, knowing that for the next 100 years, and beyond, the National Park Service will protect and nourish the parks for generations of Americans to come.
President Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created the National Park Service on August 25, 1916.
California’s nine national parks alone represent a backlog of $1.17 billion in deferred maintenance and repairs: Yosemite ($552 million), Sequoia and Kings Canyon ($184 million), Death Valley ($159 million), Point Reyes ($106 million), Joshua Tree ($83 million), Lassen ($45 million), Redwood ($25 million), Channel Islands ($15 million) and Pinnacles ($8 million). These jobs ranged from retail to park ranger. Parks advocates want an endowment to give the service a more stable source of funding to plan projects and expand services. But we may have to tell stories and we may have to understand and show parks in a different way ahead.
Great Basin, the only National Park located entirely in Nevada, doesn’t charge entrance fees, so there’s nothing to waive.
The birthday party will move downtown from 7 to 11 p.m., when the Fremont Street Experience hosts a Find Your Park from Vegas event featuring a specially made film – complete with a showgirl, an Elvis impersonator and Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman – on the canopy. Vast increase, indeed: In 1916 Yellowstone National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park had 51,395 and 31,000 visitors respectively while 100 years later they each are topping 4 million annual visitors.
Visitors were reported to have spent $16.9 billion in gateway regions while visiting National Park Service lands in 2015, supporting 295,300 jobs.
One hundred years! It’s a birthday worth celebrating.
Collins also expressed concern about the new national monument being an “impediment’ to economic activity and recreational enjoyment of the area”. Today Texas has 14 National Parks units maintained by the National Park Service.
The act creating the parks reads that “the objective is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations”.
The author, Seattle City Council member Lorena González, says, “Watching the National Park Service join hands with those marching at this year’s Pride parade represented a critical moment, symbolizing the opportunity we have to continue telling America’s story through our National Parks”. NPS will offer free admission to all 412 parks in the national park system from August 25 to August 28.
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Moose in Denali National Park.
