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Great American Outdoors Act; Long title: An Act to amend title 54, United States Code, to establish, fund, and provide for the use of amounts in a National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund to address the maintenance backlog of the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Indian ...
Long title: An Act to make provision for National Parks and the establishment of a National Parks Commission ; to confer on the Nature Conservancy and local authorities powers for the establishment and maintenance of nature reserves ; to make further provision for the recording, creation, maintenance and improvement of public paths and for securing access to open country, and to amend the law ...
The National Military Park line, including early battlefield monuments, began in 1781. Between 1890 and 1933 the War Department developed it into a National Military Park System. In 1933, there were twenty areas, 11 National Military Parks and 9 National Battlefield Sites.
National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (United Kingdom) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title National Parks Act .
National parks in the United States are created by United States Congress legislation as per the National Park Service Organic Act. [1] However, most parks are first proposed by members of the public, states, local entities, tribal nations, members of Congress, or even the National Park Service itself. [2]
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the US Department of the Interior.The service manages all national parks; most national monuments; and other natural, historical, and recreational properties, with various title designations.
An Act to rename and expand the boundaries of the Mound City Group National Monument in Ohio; National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978; Public Law 96-607; Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site Act of 1991; Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005; National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002; Public Law 97-250; Petrified Forest ...
On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation that created the National Park Service. The National Park Service Organic Act, [1] or the Organic Act as referred to within the National Park Service, is a United States federal law that established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the United States Department of the Interior.