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National Park Service

American  

noun

U.S. Government.
  1. a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1916, that administers national parks, monuments, historic sites, and recreational areas.


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The cliffs he walked can now be traversed by stairs with convenient handrails built by the National Park Service.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

This doomed seedling was part of a National Park Service planting effort to replace dozens of Joshua trees cut down by a Southern California Edison contractor tasked with protecting the company’s power lines.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

A helicopter evacuated 11 employees of the National Park Service, which manages the island as part of the Channel Islands National Park, on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

The Cultural Landscape Foundation filed suit against the Interior Department and National Park Service on Monday to stop the repainting of the pool on the National Mall.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Twenty-two years later, rangers from the National Park Service would find that same guitar on the backseat of a yellow Datsun abandoned near the shore of Lake Mead.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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