Parks Figures
The American president most famously associated with conservation (and who would strongly disagree with his party's priorities in 2025 if he had a chance to use the bully pulpit once again).
Teddy Roosevelt
There are ____ National Parks that make up a significant percentage of the over ____ sites overseen by the National Parks Service.
63; 400
America's first (official) National Park
Oil spills serve as _____, catastrophes or other moments in which public opinion is reoriented towards one particular issue or goal. In this case stopping environmental damage.
Focusing Event
This national park, the newest in the NPS as of 2020, has been visited by Dr. Martin multiple times including 20 years before it became a park during a high school trip.
New River Gorge National Park
The OG ramblin man, this simple Scot explored the Sierra Nevadas at his leisure and changed the science of geology along the way (not to mention lending his name to numerous parks sites over time)
John Muir
This law creates the National Parks Service as we know it today in 1916.
Organic Act
Teddy's first usage of the Antiquities Act in 1906 is to create this National Monument in Wyoming
Devil's Tower
The Cuyahoga of the 1950s and 1960s could be considered this term in which a river is not in great shape to say the least.
Impairment
Home to hundreds of animal species, and next week Doc, this park is the first established for the purposes of preserving biodiversity.
Everglades National Park
Author of the Yosemite Report, this landscape architect who pioneered the field helped guide Americans to understanding that some parks like Central are best manicured and maintained while others should be left as God made them, wild.
Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.
Many of the parks were protected by these individuals in the years before the establishment of the National Park Service.
US Cavalry
This early American tourist site became overrun with commercial entrepreneurs in the 19th century until a movement of landscape architects, naturalists, and politicians fought for it to be the nation's first state park in 1885
Niagara Falls
Rachel Carson
John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Doc have both spent time at this park in southern Wyoming. One of us also had the money to buy much of the land surrounding the park though to donate to the cause of preservation.
Grand Tetons National Park
Another ironic figure in the history of the parks, this president signed several key pieces of legislation about water quality, air quality, and endangered species during his tenure in the White House.
Richard Nixon
Approximately how many young men served in the Civilian Conservation Corps during its decade or so of existence, working on among other things building hundreds of parks?
3 million
The first National Park east of the Mississippi, this site was handed over incrementally by wealthy families seeking its preservation as a beautiful coastal refuge.
Acadia National Park
This is the term for over 1,300 toxic cleanup sites that the government pays to remove hazardous materials from on a long-term basis.
Superfund
Railroads and old school choo choos make this NPS site worth the visit as Doc did during a trip to Utah in 2019.
Golden Spike National Historic Park
JD Rockefeller Jr.
In today's reading about Historic Preservation Beyond Smokey the Bear the author examines the role of which law we discussed?
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
A national park was established here in 1934 to protect some of the only remaining old growth forests east of the Mississippi River and required the purchase of thousands of small farms and communities to create an intact site.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
A common 21st century political fight between Republicans and Democrats has been over drilling access in this federal area of Alaska, established in 1960 and making up over 19 million acres of the nation's most true wilderness.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
Doc spent a weekend camping at this Maryland state park that hosts the presidential retreat Camp David when visiting nearby Gettysburg and Antietam National Battlefields
Catoctin Mountain State Park