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  2. National park - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The Vanoise National Park in the Alps was the first French national park, created in 1963 after public mobilization against a touristic project. Viru Bog in the Lahemaa National Park, Estonia, before sunrise. In 1971, Lahemaa National Park in Estonia was the first area to be designated a national park in the former Soviet Union.

  3. National recreation area - Wikipedia

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    The NPS sites are stand-alone units of the National Park System, while the USFS sites are all part of national forests except Land Between the Lakes. Several of the larger USFS NRAs are managed equivalent to a ranger district, but most are designated areas within one. The Green Mountain National Forest is the only one with

  4. National forest (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Unlike national parks and other federal lands managed by the National Park Service, extraction of natural resources from national forests is permitted, and in many cases encouraged. [11] Forest products are the resources removed and harvested from national forests.

  5. Protected areas of the United States - Wikipedia

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    For instance, both the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service manage areas designated National Preserves and National Recreation Areas. The National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management manage areas called national monuments. National Wilderness Areas are designated within other protected areas ...

  6. National Wilderness Preservation System - Wikipedia

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    Wilderness Act: This Act, which was passed in 1964, classified and protected 54 wilderness areas (about 9.1 million acres) and established a system of adding new lands to the National Wilderness Preservation System. It also allowed jurisdiction over these wilderness areas by the Forest Service, National Park Service, or Fish and Wildlife Service.

  7. Reserved forests and protected forests of India - Wikipedia

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    A reserved forest (also called a reserve forest) and protected forest in India is a forest accorded a certain degree of protection. The concept was introduced in the Indian Forest Act of 1927 during the British Raj to refer to forests granted protection under the British crown in British India, but not associated suzerainties .

  8. List of areas in the United States National Park System

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    Redesignated as Olympic National Park: Petrified Forest National Monument: December 8, 1906 December 9, 1962 Redesignated as Petrified Forest National Park: Lehman Caves National Monument: June 10, 1933 October 27, 1986 Abolished; incorporated into Great Basin National Park [10] Congaree Swamp National Monument October 18, 1976 November 10, 2003

  9. Nature reserve - Wikipedia

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    Bee Lick Creek in the Jefferson Memorial Forest, a National Audubon Society wildlife refuge. A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed ...