National Parks System

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"The National Parks Service administers the 367 parks, historical sites, and recreation areas under its purview, while the U.S. Forest Service oversees U.S. forest policy for a much broader wilderness area. When these lands were first designated a national forests, it was clear that they had been set aside for consumptive uses, but new priorities and new forces have brought into question many of the traditional guidelines for the use of this land. The political and social environment of the management of the national parks has changed many times over the years as a re-examination and a re-ordering of priorities have occurred, and as part of this process considerable conflict has been generated among different groups and factions with different ideas about what the priorities should be. Both the National Parks Service (NPS) and the Forest Service face considerable.."

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