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Happy (Belated) 98th Birthday to the National Park Service!

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From the White House blog:


From our spacious skies and fruited plains to our purple mountain majesties, the United States boasts some of the world’s most breathtaking natural lands. On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service to formally protect and preserve these lands so people all over the world could experience America’s historic beauty and heritage for years to come.

Today, the National Park Service manages 401 national parks and memorials, which supported 238,000 jobs and pumped more than $26 billion into local economies last year. In fact, for every $1 we invest in our national parks, our economy sees $10 in return.

Take a glimpse at what the National Park Service has been working to preserve for 98 years, and follow the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of Interior on Twitter to see more of what makes America so beautiful.  

More Tweets from the National Park Service (@NatlParkService) and the Dept of the Interior (@Interior):

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Thank you, President Wilson, and presidents and Congresses since 1916, for preserving and protecting our natural resources. The National Park Service: “America’s Best Idea”.

National Park Service

Since 1916, the American people have entrusted the National Park Service with the care of their national parks. With the help of volunteers and park partners, we are proud to safeguard these more than 400 places and to share their stories with more than 275 million visitors every year. But our work doesn’t stop there.

We are proud that tribes, local governments, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individual citizens ask for our help in revitalizing their communities, preserving local history, celebrating local heritage, and creating close to home opportunities for kids and families to get outside, be active, and have fun.

Taking care of the national parks and helping Americans take care of their communities is a job we love, and we need-and welcome-your help and support.


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  1. JanF

    Actually a Big Huge Deal.

    President Woodrow Wilson (D):

    Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and leader of the Progressive Movement. He served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910 and was Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. He led his Democratic Party to win control of both the White House and Congress in 1912.

    Wilson induced a conservative Democratic Congress to pass a progressive legislative agenda, unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. This included the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and an income tax.

    And establishing the National Park Service.

  2. princesspat

    High, wild and free in the North Cascades

    National parks seem made for personal memories. For me, a recent visit to Ross Lake, in Washington’s North Cascades National Park complex, became a personal pilgrimage to see my very own grove of 1,000-year-old cedars.

    ~snip~

    After telling the rental clerk of my destination and when to expect me back, I paddled solo five miles up the lake, at times ghosting along the steep, rocky shore to get a closer look at orange paintbrush and bluebells blooming at the waterline. I waved as other paddlers passed in canoes, but at times the only sign of another human on the lake was a jet contrail high in the sky.

    The series on National Parks in Wa State has been nice to read on line. We subscribe to the paper but I enjoy he links to even more photos and information.

    Thanks JanF! It’s important to remember the beauty in our world.

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