Jawatan Taman Nasional

National Park Service (NPS) adalah lembaga federal AS yang mengelola semua taman nasional, berbagai monumen nasional, dan properti konservasi dan bersejarah lainnya dengan bermacam penetapan gelar. Lembaga ini dibentuk pada 25 Agustus 1916 oleh Kongres melalui National Park Service Organic Act.

NPS adalah lembaga Departemen Dalam Negeri Amerika Serikat, sebuah departemen eksekutif federal yang ketuanya, Menteri Dalam Negeri, adalah pejabat Kabinet yang dicalonkan oleh Presiden dan disetujui oleh Senat. Sebagian besar manajemen langsung NPS diperintahkan oleh Menteri kepada Direktur National Park Service, yang juga harus disetujui oleh Senat.

21.989 karyawan NPS mengawasi  satuan, 58 di antaranya ditetapkan sebagai taman nasional.

Lihat pula 
Tokoh
 Ansel Franklin Hall, Kepala Naturalis pertama dan Kepala Jagawana Pertama National Park Service
 Harry Yount, pencetus penjaga taman nasional modern
 William Kent (Kongreswan AS), menyumbang taman pertama kepada pemerintah
 John F. Lacey, kongreswan dari California.
 National Park Ranger
 National Park People

Wilayah
 Daftar wilayah di United States National Park System
 Daftar satuan resmi United States National Park System
 National Heritage Area
 National Memorial
 National Monument (Amerika Serikat)

Organisasi Terkait
 National Park Foundation
 National Parks Conservation Association

Lainnya
 National Park Passport Stamps
 National Park Travelers Club
 National Park Service Rustic, gaya arsitektur
 United States Senate Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
 Land and Water Conservation Fund
 National Park to Park Highway

Catatan kaki

Referensi 

 Albright, Horace M. (as told to Robert Cahn). The Birth of the National Park Service. Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1985.
 Albright, Horace M, and Marian Albright Schenck. Creating the National Park Service: The Missing Years. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.
 Dilsaver, Lary M., ed. America's National Park System: The Critical Documents. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994.
 Everhardt, William C. The National Park Service. New York: Praeger, 1972.
 Foresta, Ronald A. America's National Parks and Their Keepers. Washington: Resources for the Future, 1985.
 Freemuth, John. Islands Under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1991.
 Garrison, Lemuel A;. The Making of a Ranger. Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1983.
 Gartner, Bob; Exploring Careers in the National Parks. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 1993
 Hartzog, George B. Jr; Battling for the National Parks; Moyer Bell Limited; Mt. Kisco, New York; 1988
 Ise, John. Our National Park Policy: A Critical History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1961.
 Lee, Ronald F.; Family Tree of the National Park System; Eastern National Parks, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1972
 Lowery, William. Repairing Paradise: The Restoration of Nature in America's National Parks. Washington: Brookings, 2009
 Mackintosh, Barry. The National Parks: Shaping the System. Washington: National Park Service, 1991.
 National Parks for the 21st Century; The Vail Agenda; The National Park Foundation, 1991
 National Park Service Almanac, Edited and Compiled by Ben Moffett and Vickie Carson: Rocky Mountain Region, National Park Service, 1991, revised 2006
 The National Parks: Shaping The System; National Park Service, Washington D.C. 1991.
 Rettie, Dwight F.; Our National Park System; University of Illinois Press; Urbana, Illinois; 1995
 Ridenour, James M. The National Parks Compromised: Pork Barrel Politics and America's Treasures. Merrillville, IN: ICS Books, 1994.
 Rothman, Hal K. Preserving Different Pasts: The American National Monuments. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
 Runte, Alfred. National Parks, the American Experience, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
 Sellars, Richard West. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
 Shankland, Robert; Steve Mather of the National Parks; Alfred A. Knopf, New York; 1970
 Sontag, William H. National Park Service: The First 75 Years. Philadelphia: Eastern National Park & Monument Assn., 1991.
 Sutter, Paul. 2002. Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. Seattle: University of Washington press. ISBN 978-0-295-98219-9.
 Swain, Donald. Wilderness Defender: Horace M. Albright and Conservation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
 Udall, Stewart L., The Quiet Crisis. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.
 Wirth, Conrad L. Parks, Politics, and the People. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

Pranala luar 
 Situs web resmi NPS
 NPS Research Links/Reference Desk
 NPS Library Information Center 
 NPS Focus Digital Library & Research Station 
 NPS Historic Photograph Collection 
 NPS B-Roll Video (public domain)
 NPS Digital Image Archives (public domain) 
 NPS Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) 
 Community Assistance Available from the National Park Service
 Criteria for inclusion in the National Park System
 Designation of National Park System Units (national monument vs national park, etc.)
 National Park System Timeline
 The National Parks: America's Best Idea from the National Park Service Archeology Program
 National Park Service Records available in the Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration
 National Park Service Records available at the National Archives and Records Administration's Atlanta facility 

Sumber lain
 Gallery of all US National Parks  (does not include National Park System units of any other designation)
 Gallery of National Park "Welcome" Signs
 National Park Service Meeting Notices and Rule Changes  from The Federal Register RSS Feed 
 Records of the National Park Service, including an administrative history and a list of regional offices of the National Park Service up to 1988
 National Park Foundation, the Congressionally chartered national charitable partner of America's National Parks
 DOI Law Enforcement Jobs: Park Ranger (Series 0025) 

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