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Also Known As NPS
Date 1916 - present
Areas Of Involvement conservation • national park • national monument
Related People Woodrow Wilson

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Yellowstone National Park: Old Faithful
Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park
John Muir
The Grand Cañon, Yellowstone
Yosemite National Park: Vernal Fall
Glacier National Park: Iceberg Cirque
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina
Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Giant Dome and Twin Domes
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Gutzon Borglum. Presidents. Sculpture. National park. George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota.
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