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Hace 1 día · The National Park System of the United States is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by the National Park Service. The collection includes all national parks and most national monuments, as well as several other types of protected areas of the United States .
Hace 3 días · Overview of the National Park Service, the agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages and maintains several hundred national parks, monuments, historical sites, and other designated properties of the federal government. The NPS was established in 1916 by an act of the U.S. Congress.
Hace 4 días · Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
- 2,219,791 acres (8,983.18 km²)
- 3,290,242 (in 2022)
- March 1, 1872; 151 years ago
- U.S. National Park Service
Hace 2 días · Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River .
- 1,508,976 acres (6,106.61 km²), 1,508,243 acres (2,356.6 sq mi) federal
- 1,155,193 (in 2022)
Hace 5 días · The national park system was expanded during the following decades, and the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) was created in 1916 to administer the parks. By the early 21st century the NPS administered more than 400 separate areas constituting about 85 million acres (34 million hectares).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
15 de may. de 2024 · Grand Canyon National Park. Grand Canyon National Park, in Northern Arizona, encompasses 278 miles (447 km) of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands. Located on ancestral homeland of 11 Tribal Communities, Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular examples of erosion anywhere in the world—unmatched in the incomparable vistas it ...
3 de may. de 2024 · America's Everglades - The largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. Everglades National Park protects an unparalleled landscape that provides important habitat for numerous rare and endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile, and the elusive Florida panther.
