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For an area to become a unit of the National Park System, it must possess nationally significant natural, cultural, or recreational resources; be a suitable [a] and feasible [b] addition to the system; and require direct management by the National Park Service (NPS) (rather than protection by the private sector or other governmental agencies). [2]
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.
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.
IDEM's NPS and watershed efforts concentrate on these impaired water resources. [51] Implementation of TMDLs is managed by local watershed organizations, and NPS pollution controls are only voluntary. [54] Watershed groups use funding from IDEM to create incentive programs for the use of BMPs, as well as provide public information and education ...
Most U.S. wilderness areas are in national forests, but the largest amount of wilderness land is administered by the National Park Service. The largest contiguous wilderness complex in the United States is the Noatak and Gates of the Arctic Wildernesses in Alaska at 12,743,329 acres (5,157,042 ha).
Old Slater Mill, a historic district in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the first property listed in the National Register, on November 13, 1966 [1] George B. Hartzog Jr., director of the National Park Service from 1964 to 1972 [2] U.S. Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, who removed the National Register from the jurisdiction of the National Park ...
The National Park Service General Authorities Act of 1970 [1] is an amendment to the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916. The amendment included the following: Congress declares that the National Park Service, which began with establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, has since grown to include superlative natural, historic, and recreation areas in every major region of the ...
The Redwood Act [1] (also Redwood amendment) is a 1978 amendment to the US National Park Service General Authorities Act of 1970. The amendment is particularly notable for clarifying and supplementing the 1970 act and the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916 with the following two important sentences as the second and third to the General Authorities Act: