Agencies NPS Preservation Flashcards
“The best idea America Ever Had”
Wallace Stegner-National Parks
“The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its best”
George Hartzog
NPS Director 1964-1972
“There is nothing so American as our national parks…. The fundamental idea behind the parks…is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of the Interior
was Sally Jewell, now Ryan Zinke
NPS Director
Jon Jarvis current
How many acres make up the NPS?
84.4 million acres, of which more than 4.3 million acres remain in private ownership.
What is the largest area of the NPS?
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska. At 13,200,000 acres it is 16.3 percent of the entire system
Smallest area of the NPS?
Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, Pennsylvania, at 0.02 of an acre
Total of National Parks
58
Total of National areas
407
What do National Park areas include?
national parks, monuments, battlefields, military parks, historical parks, historic sites, lakeshores, seashores, recreation areas, scenic rivers and trails, and the White House.
What is the origin of the National Park Service arrowhead?
The arrowhead was authorized as the official National Park Service emblem by the Secretary of the Interior on July 20, 1951. The Sequoia tree and bison represent vegetation and wildlife, the mountains and water represent scenic and recreational values, and the arrowhead represents historical and archeological values. It was registered Feb. 9, 1965, by the U.S. Patent Office as the official emblem of the NPS
Early Parks before Yellowstone
Boston CommonsNational Capital Parks - 1790 Central Park (778 acres)- New York - 1857 Yosemite Land Grant - 1864
National Park Service Mission Statement
“…to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”
“The parks do not belong to one state or to one section…. The Yosemite, the Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon are national properties in which every citizen has a vested interest; they belong as much to the man of Massachusetts, of Michigan, of Florida, as they do to the people of California, of Wyoming, and of Arizona.”
Stephen T. Mather NPS Director, 1917-1929:
First Director of the NPS
…that the national park system, 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 United States…
General Authorities Act, 1970 (84 Stat. 825)
National Park Service Founding Fathers
Stephen Tyng Mather
Robert Sterling Yard
Franklin Lane-Secretary of Interior
Horace Albright
National Park Act
– August 25, 1916
Create the first law to protect cultural resources
The first use of the Act protected a large geographic feature – President Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower
Antiquities Act of 1906
