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1. Montana DeBor

2.  American Painter in the nineteenth century
 Worried the Native Americans and wildlife would
not survive without land preservation

3.  California Senator asked to set aside land in 1864
 Civil War raged – instigated desire to protect land
for future generations

4.  Signed act to protect Yosemite- 1864
 He had never visited the land
 Less than a year before his death
 60 square miles now protected

5.  In 1872 President Grant created Yellowstone National
Park
 Unlike Yosemite, this was the first park in the history
of the world officially created by a FEDERAL
government

6.  1883: Completion of the railroad
 Travel in comfort to the west
 Attendance increased five-fold in first year

7.  September 14, 1901
 Established five National Parks
 Antiquities Act – made way for
future parks to be created

8.  Self made millionaire: Stephen Maher
 Made protecting the National Parks his personal
mission
 Raised money through his “Mountain Party” in the
Sierra Nevada mountains – influencial
publishers, politicians, businessmen, railroad builders
attended

9.  “Auto Camping” craze swept America in the 1920’s
 Scenic highways
 Maher publicized “Park Every Hundred Miles”

10.  Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC) - Designed to combat
unemployment
 Young men hired to build
shelters, create trails, fight fire
 1933-1942

11. • FDR viewed Ansel Adams’ photographs of the west and
was inspired
• On March 4, 1940, President Roosevelt signed the law
creating Kings Canyon National Park
• FDR would not be able to visit because of his disability

12.  Most recently added national park (2013, California)
 59 in total
 Go visit one!

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Arches
Bryce Canyon
Canyonlands
Crater lake
Glacier
Grand Canyon
Great Smoky Mountains
Kings Canyon
Lassen Volcanic
Mesa Verde
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Mount Rainier
Olympic
Petrified Forest
Redwood
Rocky Mountains
Sequoia
Shenandoah
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Zion

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American Samoa
Badlands
Big Bend
Biscayne
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Capitol reef
Carlsbad caverns
Channel Islands
Congaree
Cuyhoga Valley
Death Valley
Denali
Dry Tortugas
Everglades
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Gates of the Arctic
Glacier Bay
Grand Teton
Great Basin
Great Sand Dunes
Guadalupe
Haleakala
Hawaii Volcanoes
Hot Springs
Isle Royal
Joshua Tree
Katmai
Kenai Fjords

17.  Kobuk Valley
 Lake Clark
 Mammoth cave
 North Cascade
 Pinnacles
 Saguaro
 Theodore Roosevelt
 Virgin Islands
 Voyageurs
 Wind Cave
 Wrangell-St. Elias

18. www.nationalparks.org