yellowstone was the first national park in the us.
yellowstone was the first national park in the us.
what was the first national park in the us?
yellowstone
canada's first national park was created in 1885 through an order-in-council to reserve over the cave and basin hot springs to prevent the land from being sold for private development despite claims being made for it. modeled after the american experience with yellowstone national park, the "rocky mountains park act", adopted in 1887, established the rocky mountains park (now banff national park). the idea of a national park was popular and led to numerous proposals for the ministry of the interior to consider, including additional sites along the canadian pacific railway (e.g. yoho and glacier and an expansion of banff) and the grand trunk pacific railway (e.g. jasper). in 1911 the "rocky mountains park act" was replaced by the "dominion forest reserves and parks act" which created the world's first national parks service, the dominion parks branch, to administer national parks in canada. these early national parks, including those established under the leadership of jb harkin who was the first commissioner of the dominion parks branch, were set aside to reserve lands principally for tourism and conservation but also had an exclusionary policy prohibiting first nations peoples from using their traditional lands within the new parks. in 1922, wood buffalo national park was the first to allow traditional indigenous activities to continue. in 1972, parks canada defined national park reserves, lands administered by the agency intended to become national parks pending settlement of indigenous land rights and agreements for continued traditional use of the lands.
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in europe, the first national parks were a set of nine parks in sweden in 1909, followed by the swiss national park in 1914. africa's first national park was established in 1925 when albert i of belgium designated an area of what is now democratic republic of congo centred on the virunga mountains as the albert national park (since renamed virunga national park). in 1926, the government of south africa designated kruger national park as the nation's first national park, although it was an expansion of the earlier sabie game reserve established in 1898 by president paul kruger of the old south african republic, after whom the park was named. argentina became the third country in the americas to create a national park system, with the creation of the nahuel huapi national park in 1934, through the initiative of francisco moreno.
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