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The National Park Service ( NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The service manages all national parks; most national monuments; and other natural, historical, and recreational properties, with various title designations.
History of the National Park Service. Since 1872 the United States National Park System has grown from a single, public reservation called Yellowstone National Park to include 430 natural, historical, recreational, and cultural areas throughout the United States, its territories, and island possessions.
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Our Parks was founded by the Alt National Park Service, a grassroots movement dedicated to preserving the mission of national parks, especially in periods of policy uncertainty. Their advocacy for responsible stewardship and raising public awareness around the challenges facing our parks laid the foundation for our mission.
The Alt National Park Service (AltNPS) was a movement that began around the time of the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017. After the Trump administration imposed restrictions on the communications of various federal agencies, including the National Park Service, unofficial "rogue" or "alternative" social media accounts emerged.
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Popular 19th-century writers, including transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreauand Walt Whitman drew inspiration from nature, while artists of the era—including Thomas Cole, Asher Durand and Albert Bierstadt—depicted the sublime beauty of the American landscape. These writers and artists influenced the ideals of the Amer...
The United States Congress established the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act in 1872. The bill’s creators envisioned a “pleasuring ground” for the enjoyment of all Americans—except for Native Americans, who would be effectively excluded from park land. President Ulysses S. Grantsigned the landmark bill into law on March 1, making Yellowstone...
In 1906, President Theodore Rooseveltsigned the Antiquities Act, which gave presidents the authority to create national monuments to preserve areas of natural or historic interest on public lands. The purpose of the Act was largely to protect prehistoric Native American ruins and artifacts. Roosevelt used the Act to declare Devil’s Tower in Wyoming...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, each national park and monument was independently managed, with varying degrees of success. In Yellowstone, for instance, explorer Nathaniel Langford was appointed the park’s first superintendent. He was provided no salary, funding or staff and lacked the resources to protect the park against poachers and vandals....
The National Park Service today oversees 417 parks and monuments covering more than 84 million acres. In 2016, roughly 331 million people visited sites within the National Park System. The NPS estimates that these sites contribute about $35 million a year to the U.S. economy.
In recent years, the National Park Service has faced severe funding cuts. Between 2011 and 2018, the NPS decreased its workforce by 11 percent, despite the fact that visitation to parks climbed to record high levels during that period. The House of RepresentativesNatural Resources Committee passed an act in late 2017 that would make it harder to cr...
National Park Service Overview; National Park Service. Hetch Hetchy Environmental Debates; National Archives. Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park; U.S. Library of Congress. Alt National Park Service; altnps.org.
NPS/Neal Herbert. 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.
Over 100 years later the National Park Service has grown from a small land management agency of 37 parks and monuments to one that oversees a system of more than 400 park units and administers everything from nationally important historic preservation programs to premier natural resource management.
