MAKE A MEME View Large Image On 25 August 2016, the United States <a href="https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/history.htm" rel="nofollow">National Park Service</a> celebrated its 100th anniversary. &quot;<i>On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating ...
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Keywords: On 25 August 2016, the United States <a href="https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/history.htm" rel="nofollow">National Park Service</a> celebrated its 100th anniversary. &quot;<i>On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service, a new federal bureau in the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks and monuments then managed by the department and those yet to be established. The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/anps/anps_1i.htm" rel="nofollow">Organic Act</a> stated that 'the Service thus established shall promote and regulate the use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments and reservations…by such means and measures as conform to the fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments and reservations, which purpose 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.'</i> &quot; ***************** Today, the <i>National Park Service</i> administers four hundred and twelve parks (including one for the performing arts), wildernesses, seashores, battlefields, and other areas comprising more than eighty-four million acres. park government history nature
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