"Jellystone and Yosemite Sam and the Presidents' Face One"

An NPS Primer by Aleksandra Gieryk
(National Parks Nerd and Aspiring Enviro. Professional)

Happy 100th Birthday NPS!

Quick tips & Trivia

• There are 413 National Park Units
• 60 of them are National Parks
• The newest park - Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine - was created on the eve of the NPS centennial, August 24th, 2016
• At the 2016 DNC, Chelsea Clinton shared a childhood memory of "Dinosaur National Park" but it's actually Dinosaur National Monument! (http://ti.me/2agnuKt)

Mistaking a Monument for a Park is Easy

• National Parks are made through acts of congress
• But the President can create a National Monument from public land
• Monuments are sometimes declared National Parks at a later date
• There are a total of 20 classifications the NPS uses

Some Other NPS classifications Include

• Battlefields
• Lakeshores
• Scenic Trails
• Rivers
• Historic Sites
• And Memorials (like Mount Rushmore, a.k.a. "the presidents' face one")

While Yellowstone, est. 1872, is often cited as the world's first national park, Mongolia is known to have the world's first protected area from at least 1778 -
Bogd Khan Uul
(Whitten, 2009)

The worlds first International Peace Park is shared between the United States and Canada - Waterton Glacier International Peace Park, est. 1932

Reference & Media Source List

• Drabold, Will. "Read Chelsea Clinton's Speech at the Democratic Convention." Time. Time, 29 July 2016. Web. 08 Sept. 2016.
• Whitten, Tony. "Mongolia: Tough Decisions about the World's Oldest Nature Reserve." East Asia & Pacific on the Rise. The World Bank Group, 28 Apr. 2009. Web. 08 Sept. 2016.
• All other media in this presentation was either Creative Commons or created by the author.