50th Anniversary of the National Park Service
Foley C. 1966. 50th Anniversary of the National Park Service. Washington, D.C.
The National Park Service beckons the people of the nation to come and visit the National Park System in 1966, the 50th Anniversary of the Park Service. You will be welcome visitors. And you will enjoy your visit all the more if you know more about the history and the objectives of your National Park Service. The 226 areas administered by the Service include 32 national parks, 77 national monuments, 6 national seashores, 4 national recreation areas) as well as historic sites, battlefields, parkways, and other areas. This System embraces a vast variety of areas ranging from the rock-bound coast of Maine, to the Olympic rain forest in Washington, to Hawaii and Alaska. Alaska contains the largest unit in the System: Katmai National Monument, consisting of over 2 and one-half million acres and home of the worlds largest bear, the big Alaskan brown bear. The National Park Service was established on August 25, 1916, to manage the national parks and monuments which had been established by the Congress and by executive action of the President and were then being administered by a number of bureaus throughout the Government, some by the Department of the Army, some by Agriculture, and some by the Department of the Interior.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Foley, Connie
- Date of Issue
- 1966
- Units
- HIST
- Keywords
- Administration, Administrative, Anniversary. National Park Service, ehistory, Establishment, executive, History, monuments, National Park System, president