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National park service quiz
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What is the most visited National Park?
Great Smoky Mountains National Park with 10.7 million.visitors in North Carolina and Tennessee. The second is Grand Canyon National Park with 5.5 million visitors. The most visited national park service site is the Blue Ridge Parkway with 15 million. How many sites are in the National Park Service? 413 national park system sites 59 national parks as of September 2016 How many people work for the National Park Service? Approximately 22,000 permanent, temporary and seasonal employees and 400,000 volunteers. What is the largest national park site? Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, AK, at 13.2 million acres established in 1980. What is the smallest national park site? Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, PA, at 0.02 acres. Kosciuszko was a Polish Freedom fighter and played a role in the American Revolution. What is the oldest national park? Yellowstone National Park which was established in 1872. What is the newest national park and park service site? Pinnacles National Park in California was converted from a national monument to a national park in 2013. Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine was named a national monument in August 2016. What is a National Park versus a National Monument? National parks are generally large natural places with a wide variety of attributes, and possibly some historic significance. Congress designates national parks. National monuments are landmarks or structures that have historic or scientific interest.and can be estabilshed by presidential proclamation via the Antiquities Act of 1906. Is there a National Park in every state? No, there is a national park in only 26 states. Alaska and California have the most National Parks, 8 in each. However, every state has some site, monument, recreation area, or parkway that is maintained by the National Park Service. New Hampshire and Vermont have the fewest NPS sites. What are the odds of being injured by a grizzly bear at Yellowstone? The chances of being injured by a grizzly bear are approximately 1 in 2.7 million. 8 people have been killed by bears in the park at Yellowstone since its conception. 104 million visited yellowstone between 1980 and 2015 - 38 people were injured by bears. Odds are low, but bear attacks do happen. Keep yourself safe by following NPS Bear Safety. . Source: NPS sites, September 2016 |
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