Apr 18, 2019
S02 Episode
#22
Happy National Park Week!
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I've
always loved going to National Parks - it's one of my favorite
places to travel! I've never gone to a national park and have been
disappointing. No matter whether they are big or small, the
national park system will wow you every time!
In
this episode, I'm going to give you the 411 on National Parks,
activities to do, when to go and how to navigate the park you
choose to visit. I'll also take you on a brief tour of the National
Park Service website and tell you about the National Park
Foundation.
Let's
dive in and chat about the National Park Service. I'm not going to
bore you with a bunch of information about history history of The
National Park Service; but I do want to give you some basics about
the heritage of the national Park system. By the Act of March 1,
1872, Congress established Yellowstone National Park in the
Territories of Montana and Wyoming "as a public park or
pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people" and
placed it "under exclusive control of the Secretary of the
Interior." The founding of Yellowstone National Park began a
worldwide national park movement. Today more than 100 nations
contain some 1,200 national parks or equivalent
preserves.
On
August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating
the National Park Service, a new federal bureau in the Department
of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks
and monuments then managed by the department and those yet to be
established. This "Organic Act" states
that "the Service thus established shall promote and regulate the
use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments and
reservations…by such means and measures as conform to the
fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments and reservations,
which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and
historic objects and the wild life 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."
An
Executive Order in
1933 transferred 56 national monuments and military sites from
the Forest Service and the War Department to the National Park
Service. This action was a major step in the development of today's
truly national system of parks—a system that includes areas of
historical as well as scenic and scientific importance. Congress
declared in the General Authorities Act
of 1970 "that the National Park System, which began with the
establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, has since grown
to include superlative natural, historic, and recreation areas in
every region…and that it is the purpose of this Act to include all
such areas in the System…."
So,
what can you do in a national park? What do you want to do? Find
out about local geologic features? How about the history of how our
country's government formed? Or maybe you want to learn about the
ecosystem of the Everglades? Sound overwhelming? Why not start at
the National Park website at NPS.gov
Here
you can:
-
search
by state
-
see
what parks, monument and national lands are in the state
-
link
to the specific park
-
find
out what activities each individual park has to offer
Kids
stuff: you'll never see a bored child at a national park. My kids
LOVED going to national parks and completing the junior ranger
programs!
In
this episode, I'll give you the what's up on
-
why you should get an annual pass
-
what to expect at a park
-
what to pack before you go to a park (especially if you're
gluten-free)
Listener Shout-Out!
Bonnie.Frank
Online Visibility ExpertGet Seen-Heard-Paid
#MDMC19 speaker
Resources | Links
National Park Foundation
National Park
Week
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