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Legally two separate national forests—the Chequamegon National Forest and the Nicolet National Forest—the areas were established by presidential proclamations in 1933 and have been managed as one unit since 1998. [4] The Chequamegon National Forest comprises three units in the north-central part of the state totaling 865,825 acres (3,503.87 ...
Public Law 99-497 in 1986 added Long Island to the National Lakeshore and transferred ownership of all the light stations from the U.S. Coast Guard to the National Park Service. After the National Park Service completed a wilderness study in 2004 and received overwhelming support from the public, Congress designated 80 percent of the land area ...
Aztalan State Park is a Wisconsin state park in the Town of Aztalan, Jefferson County. Established in 1952, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The park covers 172 acres (70 ha) along the Crawfish River. Approximate areas of Mississippian and related cultures.
The Midwest has many national park gems, including Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
According to the National Park Service, "One of the greatest concentrations of black bears in North America is found on Stockton Island in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Bears also regularly inhabit Sand and Oak islands, and, due to their mobility, may be found on just about any of the Apostle Islands."
1938 poster promoting Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world Interactive map (incomplete) of the National Parks of the United States. The United States has 63 national parks , which are congressionally designated protected areas operated by the National Park Service , an agency of the Department of the Interior . [ 1 ]
There are 21 national preserves in the United States, 19 of which are counted by the National Park System as official units. Ten are stand-alone official units, while eleven others are designated areas where hunting or grazing is permitted as part of a larger "national park and preserve" or "national monument and preserve".
The Red Cliff Band established the Frog Bay Tribal National Park on the reservation in 2012. [10] It is the first tribal national park open to the public in the United States. [ 11 ] The park protects about 175 acres (0.71 km 2 ) of boreal forest, wetland, and undeveloped Lake Superior coastline.