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National Park Movement grows as parks expand and funds rise
The article outlines a broad national park policy under Secretary Work with nine main parks, new sites eyed in the Appalachians, and a $7.5 million highway program. Attendance rose to 1,670,908 in 1924, led by Rocky Mountain, with Yosemite and Grand Canyon also highlighted.
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John Dickinson Sherman
United States
Congress
Washington
Coolidge
Army
Work
Interior Department
National Park Movement
National Park System
Utah National Park
Shenandoah
Great Smoky
Southwest
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
National Parks
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Mount Rainier
Yellowstone
Wyoming
Yosemite
California
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Platt
Oklahoma
Crater Lake
Oregon
Mount McKinley
Alaska
Fall River
Glacier
Continental Divide
Park
Helena
Mont
Secretary of the Interior
Appalachians
Blue Ridge Mountains
Virginia
Great Smoky Mountains
Tennessee
Mammoth Cave
Lafayette
Ecological Society of America
Glacier Bay
Muir National Park
Glacier Bay National Monument
Redwoods National Park
Save the Redwoods League
Dyerville Flats
Bull Creek Flat
Humboldt State Redwood Park
Carlsbad
New Mexico
Texas State Line
Stephen T. Mather
National Park Service
Lane
Wilson
R. Bruce Horsfall
Nature Magazine
Forest Service
National Forests
Izaak Walton League
Longs Peak
Agnes W. Vaile
Denver
Colorado Mountain Club
Walter Kiener
Switzerland
Timberline House
Chasm Lake
East Gorge
Boulder Field
Miss Vaile
Kiener
Sortland
Estes Vark
Longs Peak Inn
Sequoia
General Grant
Laura Spelman Rockefeller