Explore Your National Parks ~ 'Tails' from the Parks

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... I thought that the National Park System started over a hundred years ago
with Theodore Roosevelt who was quite an outdoorsman and conversavationist ,
especially for those times. ...

Well, not quite.
Teddy came along a little bit AFTER the National Parks were first created.

See this write-up from the National Park Service web site >>>

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/h...iefhistory.htm

"The national park concept is generally credited to the artist George Catlin.
On a trip to the Dakotas in 1832, he worried about the impact of America's westward expansion
on Indian civilization, wildlife, and wilderness. They might be preserved, he wrote,
'By some great protecting policy of government... in a magnificent park....
A nation's park, containing man and beast, in all the wild and freshness of their nature's beauty.'

Catlin's vision was partly realized in 1864, when Congress donated Yosemite Valley to California
for preservation as a state park. Eight years later, in 1872, Congress reserved the spectacular
Yellowstone country in the Wyoming and Montana territories
'as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.'
With no state government there yet to receive and manage it, Yellowstone remained
in the custody of the U.S. Department of the Interior as a national park ÷
the world's first area so designated."

So ... George did it!

by Phred

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previously posted:

I have a Senior Lifetime Pass. Cost me $10, and I can visit any of the National Parks. Wish I could say we'd seen more of them. Pictured Rocks in the Upper Peninsula is gorgeous, and Petersburg National Battlefield and Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia are both small but very interesting. There are two in my home state of Rhode Island - Tuoro Synagogue in Newport, and Roger Williams in Providence.

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Many Ohioans don't know about the Beautiful National Park we have right
here in North/Central Ohio - The Cuyahoga Valley National Park >>>

http://www.nps.gov/cuva/index.htm

OTHER Ohio Parks >>>
http://www.nps.gov/state/OH/index.htm

Not from Ohio? - Find your closest National Park here >>>
http://www.nps.gov/index.htm

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posted by pomtzu

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Originally Posted by Grace
There are two in my home state of Rhode Island - Tuoro Synagogue in Newport, and Roger Williams in Providence.

When did Roger Williams become a National Park??

That was the place Dad had to take us for the Sunday afternoon drive just to get out of the house, where we went to the fireworks on July 4th, and where Dad absolutely had to take us as little kids to take pics of us when the flowers were in bloom. Remember the big flower bed that was planted to look like the American Flag? That takes me WAY back!
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[Karen]

It's funny, because last night we watched "Night at the Museum 2" (free from Redbox, gotta love it) and the Teddy Roosevelt character claimed to have founded the National Park system, so it's easy to see where the rumors come from. Not that I get my facts from popular culture, but it's easy to do!

I think pictures would be great, Jill, thanks for sharing yours! I just don't have any handy, but next time ...