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by
Thomas Crochetiere
“America’s best idea” ~ our National Park units!
As of 2016, the United States National Park Service oversees 410 park units. They are found in all 50 states, including Washington, D.C., and in the U.S. territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Listed by state and territory, this book gives you a glance at these amazing National Parks, including the disbanded and proposed units. Whether it is in the mountains, the deserts, the prairies, on waterways or in urban areas, America’s National Park units are unique and different from one another. Each unit is a jewel amid the national treasure and they all have a story to tell, if you have the time to listen.
Thomas Crochetiere
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Cover photo of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park
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Copyright © 2015 by Thomas Crochetiere
First Edition-First Release, 2016
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2664-8
Published in the United States of America
Edited by: Thomas Crochetiere
Proofread by: Jeannie Fitzsimmons and David Smith
Photos courtesy of the National Park Service and Thomas Crochetiere
“There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. The parks stand as the outward symbol of this great human principle.”
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
“Growth and development of national park and reserve programs throughout the world are important to the welfare of the people of every nation. We must have places where we can find release from the tensions of an increasingly industrialized civilization, where we can have personal contact with the natural environment which sustains us. To this end, permanent preservation of the outstanding scenic and scientific assets of every country, and of the magnificent and varied wildlife which can be so easily endangered by human activity, is imperative. National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our national resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.”
~ John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
