Yet the National Park Service budget is only 0.01 percent of the federal budget, just short of $3 billion annually. According to one article in any year there are approximately 100 faculty members and twenty to thirty undergraduate and graduate students researching, teaching, or learning in the park at the same time.
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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, whose department oversees the NPS, was to visit Yellowstone National Park, which comprises parts of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, later Thursday for the anniversary celebration. Muir had educated President Theodore Roosevelt on the need to establish a national park system when he took him on a three-day wilderness trip at Yosemite.
“If we do not, then in the words of my predecessor, Director Stephen Mather, we may lose them to selfish interests who call for our parks and public lands to be developed for short-term private gain”, Jarvis said. This weekend’s celebration is especially significant because President Barack Obama dedicated the Park Service’s 413th unit Wednesday, using his authority under the Antiquities Act – the 87,000-acre Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument protects lakes and forests in central Maine.
As the National Park Service celebrates their Centennial Thursday the country’s top steward spent her morning in Glacier National Park to look at the successes and challenges the Crown Jewel of the Continent is facing.
When Democratic President Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation on August 25, 1916, this held these lands in the public trust for all of us to enjoy. One can find that beauty and healing in many places, but nothing compares with the gifts and blessings our National Parks provide.
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Philadelphia has four sites managed by the National Park Service, including Independence National Historical Park. And Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky has more than 400 miles of mapped cave areas for visitor enjoyment.
“Mesa Verde was always a special place for me”, he said. “It’s so easy to forget where we come from and who are and, without that, it is hard to have a sense of where you really want to go”, said Edward Hector.
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The temporary photography exhibit at the Ocmulgee National Monument will be up through Sunday.
