National Parks

By walsha23

  • 1864

    1864
    President Lincoln and congress set aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias.

  • 1872

    1872
    8 years after congress protected Yosemite they decided to do the same thing with Yellowstone which made a huge movement towards national parks.

  • 1906

    1906
    Mesa Verde, the first national park to preserve ancient artifacts of Americas past.

  • 1916

    1916
    President Woodrow Wilson signed the "Organic Act," creating the National Park Service.

  • 1933

    Before the National Park Service all the historical areas and monuments were managed by the War and Agriculture Department's. In 1933 this all changed when the National Park Service became a thing.

  • 1933-1942

    1933-1942
    In 1993 the US was in the middle of the great depression. President Franklin D Rosevelt wanted to put people to work. He put people to work through Conservation Corps while also conserving the country's natural resources. For every $1.00 invested in the National Park System it returns to $10.00 for the US economy.