Mike Reynolds, deputy director of the National Park Service, said there is something for everyone in the system.
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Google is no different, devoting its Google Doodle on Thursday to the parks and its watershed moment of existence. The agency celebrated at 413 parks nationwide, including Denali National Park.
Years later Simmons can hardly believe the national park service she loved working with so much is turning the big 1-0-0. It absorbed all national battlefields into the park system in 1933.
View of the Lower Falls at the Yellowstone Grand Canyon in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
We must unplug, get out of our houses and leave all electronics at home and explore God’s greatest creations that man over 100 years, has worked to preserve. Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.
On Aug. 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service to conserve the nation’s scenery and wildlife for future generations.
Both battlegrounds will be celebrating the Overmountain Victory Trail history in October with public programs in Rutherford County and across the State line in Cherokee County. President Barak Obama named Maine’s Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument as the newest national park the day before the National Park Services’ centennial celebration.
In this handout provided by NASA from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite shows the drought-fueled Rim fire burning on August 23, 2013 near Yosemite National Park, California.
With summer winding down, perhaps this weekend is the time to squeeze in a trip to one of the 58 national parks, especially considering the National Parks Service is offering free admission to all its parks through Sunday in coordination with its centennial celebration.
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“Prior to that, there were national parks that had been set aside, but there were no good ways to manage them and protect them”, said Scott Teodorski, Chief Interpretator for Congaree National Park. Write to us in the Comments Section or on our Facebook page.
