The Legislative History of the National Park Service’s Conservation and Nonimpairment Mandate

By Caitlin Brown*   Introduction The National Park Service manages over 84 million acres of land divided between 413 different sites, and in 2015 alone, served 307.2 million visitors.[1] Their management goals are based on the 1916 National Park Service Organic Act (“the Act”). Section 1 of the Act defines the Park Service’s purpose as […]