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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes U.S. organizations in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence. The Baldrige Award is the highest [2] formal recognition of the performance excellence of both public and private U.S. organizations given by the President of the United States.
The total area protected by national parks is approximately 52.4 million acres (212,000 km 2), for an average of 833 thousand acres (3,370 km 2) but a median of only 220 thousand acres (890 km 2). [8] The national parks set a visitation record in 2021, with more than 92 million visitors. [9]
Last year America’s National Parks welcomed a grand total of 312 million visitors, up 5 per cent from 2021, although still some way short of the record 331 million visitors who flocked to the ...
This is a distinct difference from the national Baldrige Award process [5] where only organizations with highly graded applications are granted a site visit. TPE also provides Baldrige-related educational services such as conferences, seminars, and direct partnering with individuals and organizations.
Yellowstone National Park in the United States was the first national park in the world. [1] [2]This is a list of the number of national parks per nation, as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
In an effort to save on cash processing and hand handling fees, 22 national parks have gone cashless as of 2023. In September 2023, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) proposed the "Protecting Access to Recreation with Cash Act" (PARC) which would require national parks to accept cash as a form of payment for entrance fee. [13]
1,284.27 acres (5.1973 km 2) Amache National Historic Site: Colorado: 472.59 acres (1.9125 km 2) Andersonville National Historic Site. Andersonville National Cemetery; Georgia: 515.61 acres (2.0866 km 2) Andrew Johnson National Historic Site. Andrew Johnson National Cemetery; Tennessee: 16.68 acres (0.0675 km 2) Bent's Old Fort National ...