Yellowstone National Park was created as the first national park in the United States. In 1872, there was no state government to manage it, so the federal governmentassumed direct control. National parks and national monuments

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The National Park System includes all properties managed by the National Park Service, which have a wide variety of titles or designations. The

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The National Park System received over 327 million recreation visits in 2019. Park visitation grew 64 percent between 1979 and 2015.

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In an effort to increase visitation and allow for a larger audience to enjoy national park land, the NPS has numerous concessioncontracts with private

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The national headquarters is located in the Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street NW, several blocks southwest of the White House.

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By the mid-1950s, the primary employees of the service were the park rangers, who had broad responsibilities on the parks' behalf. They cleaned up trash, operated heavy equipment, fought

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In 2019, the NPS had an annual budget of $4.085 billion and an estimated $12 billion maintenance backlog. On August 4, 2020, the Great American Outdoors Actwas signed into law reducing the $12 billion maintenance backlog by $9.5 billion over a 5-year period beginning in

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