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The '''National Park Service''' is a bureau within the [[United States]] [[Department of the Interior]], responsible for the oversight, maintenance, and budget for United States national parks, preserves, monuments, memorials, national historic sites, seashores, and battlefields. ''The concept of national parks, that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone, is a uniquely American one.'' <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=jLUXkmCLx8gC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=The+concept+of+national+parks+is+something+uniquely+American&source=bl&ots=LKl8mBMIa4&sig=ML7wEuHusBdsXhLoIxzN1pwjmaI&hl=en&ei=Tp6SSsK6GIL8sgOvx-AL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false Environmental discourse and practice: a reader, By: Lisa M. Benton, John Rennie Short - 2000 - Political Science]</ref> Naturalist, writer, and historian [[Wallace Stegner]] once said, talking about the idea for creating national parks, that it was  “the best idea we ever had.”.

The '''National Park Service''' is a bureau within the [[United States]] [[Department of the Interior]], responsible for the oversight, maintenance, and budget for United States [[national park]]s, preserves, monuments, memorials, national historic sites, seashores, and battlefields. ''The concept of national parks, that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone, is a uniquely American one.'' <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=jLUXkmCLx8gC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=The+concept+of+national+parks+is+something+uniquely+American&source=bl&ots=LKl8mBMIa4&sig=ML7wEuHusBdsXhLoIxzN1pwjmaI&hl=en&ei=Tp6SSsK6GIL8sgOvx-AL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false Environmental discourse and practice: a reader, By: Lisa M. Benton, John Rennie Short - 2000 - Political Science]</ref> Naturalist, writer, and historian [[Wallace Stegner]] once said, talking about the idea for creating national parks, that it was  “the best idea we ever had.”.

==Headquarters Organization==

==Headquarters Organization==