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... These are just a few of the national parks on the Endangered list . ... The national parks have created a place for all. ... Although, this might not be for long; the national parks are suffering from a tremendous lack of funds.
The idea of National Parks is credited to George Catlin. ... The first national park, Yellowstone, was preserved in 1872, before Wyoming and Montana’s state government were established. ... Department of the Interior and was considered a National Park. Many other national Parks were set up in the 1890’s and 1900’s and by 1916 the Interior department was in charge of 14 national parks and 21 national monuments (Mackintosh 1). Currently there are 388 total units of the national park that occupy nearly every state and U. ...
Joy Oakes, a mid-Atlantic regional director for NPCA (National Parks Conservation Association) said that "Funding is a critical and cornice issue throughout the parks system, It impacts ripples throughout the individual and throughout the park system" (qtd in McBride 1). In an article from the Washington Post in January, she said that the Parks only receive about two-thirds of the amount of funding a year that is required to run a park efficiently (McBride 1).
Approximate Word count = 919
Approximate Pages = 3.7
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