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24 unusual facts about National Park Service


Alex Matthiessen

He was also co-creator and head of the Green Energy Parks initiative, a joint program between the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service and the Department of Energy, which promotes renewable and energy efficient technology throughout the national park system.

Anti-graffiti coating

Both the National Park Service and English Heritage advise against the use of anti-graffiti coatings and promote the exercise of caution when they are applied to historic buildings and monuments.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

The National Park Service restored the house and installed Plexiglas covers over the bookcases during the time between the purchase and its opening.

Centennial Dome

It served as a visitor center for attractions in Richmond including the Richmond National Battlefield Park of the National Park Service and the Museum of the Confederacy.

Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area

At the direction of Congress, the National Park Service studied the national importance of the Revolutionary War resources in New Jersey.

The Association was designated by the National Park Service as the management entity responsible for the National Heritage Area.

F. Nelson Blount

The Steamtown Foundation declared bankruptcy in the mid-1980s and was acquired by the National Park Service.

George Melendez Wright

George Melendez Wright (June 20, 1904 – February 25, 1936) was an American biologist who conducted the first scientific survey of fauna for the National Park Service.

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

The Conservancy is an authorized "cooperating association" of the National Park Service, and is one of more than 70 such nonprofit organizations working with national parks around the country.

Great Falls Park

Great Falls Park is a small National Park Service (NPS) site in Virginia, United States.

Harmony Society

Today, many of the Society's remaining buildings are preserved; all three of their settlements in the United States have been declared National Historic Landmark Districts by the National Park Service.

International Children's Festival at Wolf Trap

The International Children's Festival is sponsored by the Arts Council of Fairfax County in cooperation with the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the National Park Service.

National Capital Parks-East

National Capital Parks-East (NCPE) is an administrative grouping of a number of National Park Service sites generally east of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., but also nearby in Maryland.

National Railway Historical Society

The NRHS sponsors the popular RailCamp summer orientation program in partnership with Amtrak and the National Park Service, offering high school youth hands-on experience in the railroad industry.

The program offers firsthand experience of rail history and operations, offered in partnership with the National Park Service and Amtrak.

San Francisco Maritime National Park Association

In 1978 the Maritime Museum was transferred to the National Park Service, and it now forms the core of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.

Sutro District

An attempt by the National Park Service to have the district listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places was unsuccessful, though the Camera Obscura on the property of the Cliff House was successfully added to the National Register on its own.

Tuscarora Heroes Monument

However, financial support was received from the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area, an arm of the National Park Service.

Union Pacific 737

In 1989, the Steamtown Foundation donated the remaining railroad collection, including UP 737, to the National Park Service.

The National Park Service removed this locomotive from its property listings in August 1995 when it was donated to the Nevada Southern Railroad Museum at Boulder City, Nevada.

On October 30, 1986 the US Congress passed legislation creating Steamtown National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program

Recovery Program partners include: the Colorado River Energy Distributors Association, the Colorado Water Congress, the National Park Service, the State of Colorado, the State of Utah, the State of Wyoming, the Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Utah Water Users Association, the Western Area Power Administration, the Western Resource Advocates, and the Wyoming Water Association.

Western Arctic National Parklands

The Western Arctic National Parklands describes four United States National Park Service units in western Alaska that are managed by a single park superintendent and their staff.

Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge

The refuge is located immediately north of the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, which is operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Wisconsin State Historical Society, University of Wisconsin Extension Service, and Friends of the Center Alliance, Ltd.


Albright Peak

Albright Peak is the only mountain peak named for Horace M. Albright, the second director of the National Park Service.

Angella Reid

As White House Chief Usher, she is responsible for management of White House operations in collaboration with several organizations, including the White House Historical Association, the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the White House Curator, and the National Park Service.

Bristolville, Ohio

Their 1855 cabin has been restored as the Mayhew Cabin museum, and is the only site in Nebraska recognized by the National Park Service as a station on the Underground Railroad.

Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.

In accordance with Executive Order 11593 by President Richard Nixon the National Park Service survey, and registered Civil War statues in Washington, D.C. to aid in their preservation.

Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence

Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, 468 U.S. 288 (1984), is a United States Supreme Court case that challenged the National Park Service's regulation which specifically prohibited sleeping in Lafayette Park and the National Mall.

Coleman Station Historic District

After the listing on the New York State Register of Historic Places in 1993, the Keeper of the Register at the National Park Service followed with a listing on the National Register two months later.

Cooperating Associations

Cooperating Associations, also known as interpretive associations or natural history associations, support the interpretive, educational and scientific programs and services of governmental land management agencies such as the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Army Corps of Engineers, or state park departments.

Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station

Therefore, the company agreed to pay fines of $23.7 million, with an additional $4.3 million to be contributed to various groups, including the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Habitat for Humanity, and the University of Toledo as well as to pay some costs related to the federal investigation.

Eastern National

Eastern National (also known as EN) is a non-profit organization based in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, that partners with the National Park Service in the United States.

Ed Hooper

In 1996, Hooper coordinated a successful national media campaign to bring attention to the plight of Shiloh National Military Park’s erosion issues and the destruction of a Mississippian Indian Mound, which sat on the back of the National Park Service's Shiloh property.

Forests of the United States

Most public forest land is held by four Federal agencies (United States Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service) as well as numerous state, county, and municipal government organizations.

Glacier Park Company

Operating as a concessionaire of the National Park Service, the company operated from a summer base in East Glacier Park, Montana, near the company's flagship Glacier Park Hotel; winter headquarters were in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Gleaves Whitney

In his current position as director of the Hauenstein Center, he has cultivated many institutional partnerships—e.g., the National Park Service, Houston Museum of Natural Science, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum—and numerous ongoing professional partnerships—e.g., H. W. Brands, Richard Norton Smith, William Barker, and George Nash.

Great Sioux Reservation

Although many non-Native homesteads were abandoned during the Dust Bowl-era of the 1930s, rather than reassigning the land to the Sioux, the federal government transferred much of the abandoned land to federal agencies, for instance, the National Park Service took over part of the modern National Grasslands and the Bureau of Land Management was assigned other land for management.

Jefferson Pier

An artifact sometimes confusing to and often overlooked by tourists, Jefferson Pier is maintained today by the National Park Service under its National Mall and Memorial Parks administrative unit.

Maryland highway system

Examples of highways within this category include parkways, such as the Clara Barton Parkway or Sligo Creek Parkway; streets on federal research campuses, such as those of the National Institutes of Health or Goddard Space Flight Center; roads on military bases, such as those on Fort Meade; and roads within reservations of the National Park Service, such as Bayberry Drive within Assateague Island National Seashore.

May Mann Jennings

According to Ruthanne Vogel of the University of Miami, "She was...instrumental in the development of Royal Palm State Park near Homestead," later donated to the National Park Service and incorporated into Everglades National Park.

Mount Grace

In 2000, Mount Grace was included in a study by the National Park Service for possible inclusion in a new National Scenic Trail; tentatively in 2007 the project was on course to be called the New England National Scenic Trail, which would include the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail in Massachusetts, and the Mattabesett and Metacomet trails in Connecticut.

National Park Service Ranger

While all employees of the agency contribute to the National Park Service mission of preserving unimpaired the natural and cultural resources set aside by the American people for future generations, the term Park Ranger is traditionally used to describe all National Park Service employees who wear the uniform.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Denton County, Texas

The National Historic Landmark Program is administered by the National Park Service, a branch of the Department of the Interior.

Norfleet Giddings Bone

Upon leaving the Army for a second time in 1932, Bone continued to work in the fields of landscape design and civil engineering for the National Park Service (NPS), the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Texas State Parks Board (now the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department).

North Carolina Highway 284

Its routing through the Great Smoky Mountains was demoted to Old NC 284 (Cove Creek Road) and today remains primitive road; it is thus unpaved and is maintained by the National Park Service.

PAST Foundation

The year-long program featured the first Thermal River archaeological investigation on the Marshall Hotel in the Firehole River and culminated in a published book on the archaeology of the site garnering PAST the National Park Service John L. Cotter Award for Excellence in American Archaeology.

Pop-up maps

The Unfolds Pop-Up format was licensed in custom formats by clients such as Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, Museum of Modern Art, Rand McNally, National Park Service, Bertelsmann, TED (conference), BMW, Pfizer, Marvel Entertainment, MTV Books and Berlitz Corporation among others.

Resource Ordering Status System

Participating agencies include many state fire suppression organizations such as CAL FIRE, and federal entities such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, National Information Technology Center, and the United States Forest Service.

Ripley P. Bullen

While chairing the Department, Bullen participated in a number of excavations sponsored by the William L. Bryant Foundation and the National Park Service in St. John and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Snogo Snow Plow

The National Park Service gave the plow to the city of Estes Park, Colorado in 1952, which used it until 1979, when it was damaged by water entering through the exhaust.

Sunrise Comfort Station

Built in 1932, the building was designed by Thomas Chalmers Vint of the National Park Service in association with landscape architect E.A. Davidson.

Survivorman

On July 16, 2007, Stroud and a support crew of four in the nearby safety camp were cited by the United States National Park Service for commercial videotaping without a permit at Taroka Arm, a seldom-visited area at Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska.

Top Cottage

Although it was meant as a retreat, FDR also received notable guests at the cottage, including Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and, after half a century in private ownership, it was restored and given to the National Park Service, which today operates it as part of the nearby Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site.

United States General Services Administration Building

Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, oversaw construction of dams, fully developed the National Park Service to provide recreational needs, and served as the first Federal Administrator of Public Works.

Wilderness Risk Management Conference

The founding group consisted of representatives from NOLS, Outward Bound USA, Wilderness Medical Society, Exum Mountain Guides, Association for Experiential Education, National Park Service, National Safety Network, American Alpine Club, and Outdoor Network.

William Nelson Page

The circa 1730 Nelson House built by "Scotch Tom" Nelson in Yorktown, Virginia is a National Historical Landmark maintained by the Colonial National Historical Park of the U.S. National Park Service.