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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).
The first area to use "national park" in its creation legislation was the U.S.'s Mackinac National Park, in 1875. (The area was later transferred to the state's authority in 1895, thus losing its official "national park" status. [34] [35]) Following the idea established in Yellowstone and Mackinac, there soon followed parks in other nations.
[5] Many current national parks had been previously protected as national monuments by the president under the Antiquities Act or as other designations created by Congress before being redesignated by Congress; the newest national park is New River Gorge, previously a National River, and the most recent entirely new park is National Park of ...
“The Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve Establishment Act would create a historic opportunity to protect important natural and cultural resources, protect hunting and fishing for ...
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The site is owned and operated by the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia, also serving as a unit of Colonial National Historical Park. [64] John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Massachusetts: 0.09 acres (0.00036 km 2) John F. Kennedy was a part of the Kennedy political family and served as the 35th President of the United States.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The National Park Service has turned to the public to help decide whether the famous wild horses in North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park should stay or go.. The ...