On March 1, 1872, Yellowstone became America’s first national park and inspired a national parks movement around the world.
was signed into law in 1872 by President Ulysses S. Grant "as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." Many congressmen at the time gave it their support simply because they believed the rugged and isolated region was of little economic value, according toBut its development popularized the idea of preserving sections of land for use as public parks.
Yellowstone has over 10,000 hydrothermal sites and half the world's active geysers, according to NPS., 16 species of fish, five species of amphibians, six species of reptiles, and 67 species of mammals, including seven native hoofed mammal species and two bear species. "In the early 1900s, the government killed nearly all predators in the park, and the bison population was hunted to less than two dozen," the NPS states on its website. "Later that century, the fires of 1988 burned more than one-third of the park, and the introduction of nonnative lake trout decimated native Yellowstone cutthroat populations."
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