The National Park Service, an agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior, was established by the National Park Service Act of 1916 making it the first such agency in the world. Its mission as stated in the Act is: "to conserve the scenery...

Established in 1916 under the National Park Service Organic Act, the National Park Service (NPS) manages over 83.6 millions acres of federal parks, including battlefields, cemeteries, historical sites, lakeshores, memorials, monuments, parkways,...

The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.[1] It was created on August 25, 1916, by...

The writer Wallace Stegner, who served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy Administration, once called national parks "the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best...." Since Yellowstone National Park was established in...

CREATING THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE The Missing Years Horace M. Albright and Marian Albright Schenck, foreword by Robert M. Utley University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1999. xx + 550 pp. $34.95. Stephen T. Mather was not really the first director of the...

Snowmobile travel in Yellowstone National Park will be restricted to 540 trips per day starting in the winter of 2008-09, the National Park Service decided Tuesday.Conservationists had wanted a ban on snowmobiling in the park, saying it causes noise and air pollution. In a recent...

President Bush came to the snow-topped Blue Ridge Mountains on Wednesday to rally public support for a plan to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into national parks."Congress needs to hear loud and clear how important this initiative is," Bush said at Shenandoah National Park.The...