“Our parks are stressed, so on one hand it’s a good thing more Americans are visiting our national parks, but it brings challenges here with constraints of infrastructure”, Daines said.
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The National Park Service celebrated its 100th birthday on Thursday with events across the United States including the creation of a living version of its emblem in Washington, D.C., a naturalization ceremony on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and an outdoor concert at Yellowstone National Park. That includes free admission this weekend.
National Park Service was founded in 1916 to preserve the unimpaired natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the education, enjoyment and inspiration of this and future generations.
The Ocmulgee National Monument made the centennial celebration their own by asking Maconites to send in their pictures of national parks for a photography exhibit.
Today happens to be the 100th birthday of the foundation of the US National Park Service.
If you do get the chance to visit the splendor of Yosemite National Park though, the majority of tourists never venture beyond Yosemite Valley, so we encourage you explore some its wild back country and Tuolumne Meadows. Our parks contributed an impressive $32 billion to our local and national economies. “And that you preserve them for future generations”.
Yosemite, located in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, sort of became the became the first national park in the U.S.in the 1800s, according to National Geographic, when President Lincoln put Yosemite under the protection of California during the Civil War.
Gina Gilliam, an NPS public affairs officer, serves as an ambassador of sorts to people of color among the 4.5 million visitors to Independence National Historic Park. Then, the Sierra Club started working to advocate for a system of national parks. The National Park Service oversees 413 national parks, monuments and historic sites, at a time of tight congressional budgets, a $12-billion fix backlog and some calling for reducing public lands.
Glacier was established as a national park in 1910, six years before the National Park Service was created.
Members of the ME delegation, as well as park leaders, will be in attendance.
National Park Service units can be found from Anwar, Alaska, to the Everglades in Florida. At last count, parks assisted by the land and water fund touch the lives of people in more than 98 percent of US counties. The best way to celebrate this anniversary is to enjoy a national park with your family.
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You might say that two American presidents, one Republican and one Democrat, Roosevelt and Wilson, set the stage for our world-renowned park system.
