Even with the creation of Yellowstone, Yosemite, and nearly 37 other national parks and monuments, another 44 years passed before an agency was created in the United States to administer these units in a comprehensive way — the U. S. National Park Service ( NPS ).

* National Park Service — NPS: Taos Pueblo — on NPS " Discover Our Shared Heritage " website.

* National Register of Historic Places # NPS – 75000497 — Mission San Buenaventura Aqueduct

However, several members of Congress, particularly Senators Ted Stevens and Mike Gravel of Alaska, remained strongly opposed to the absorption of such a large amount of land by the NPS — which would take the land off the market, they contended, and hamper long-term economic development plans for Alaska.

* NPS Virgin Islands National Park — map

* NPS — TwHP: “ Glorieta and Raton Passes: Gateways to the Southwest ” — a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan.

* National Register of Historic Places # NPS – 66000162 — " Baranof Castle Hill " site

* National Register of Historic Places # NPS – 66000164 — " Battle of Sitka " site

* National Register of Historic Places # NPS – 66000166 — Old Sitka (" Redoubt Saint Michael ") site

* National Register of Historic Places # NPS – 66000025 — Russian Bishop's House

* NPS: official Cheeseboro Canyon — Palo Comado Canyon Parks website — information + images + map

* NPS. gov: Geology of the New River

* Geology of Ice Age National Scientific Reserve of Wisconsin NPS Scientific Monograph No. 2

A carbon dioxide-baited CDC light trap at National Park Service | NPS monitoring site.

The National Park Service ( NPS ) gives traveling advice for those who want to follow other branches of the trail.

A Brochure Map for driving and detailed Anza Maps by County, with a Historical destinations-events Guide and the official NPS: Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail website are all available for information about the historic 1776 Juan Bautista de Anza trail places.

For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service ( NPS ), an agency within the United States Department of the Interior.

A few years later in 1979, the NPS history programs affiliated with both the U. S. National Parks system and the National Register were categorized formally into two " Assistant Directorates.

* Official NPS website: Effigy Mounds National Monument

Following these conferences, the National Park Service ( NPS ) defined cultural resources in the Cultural Resource Management Guidelines as being:

The war site has been designated the Tupelo National Battlefield and is administered by the National Park Service ( NPS ).

It is now preserved as a National Civil Engineering Landmark and National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service ( NPS ).

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places is the Greys ' home from 1914 to 1918, now preserved by the NPS as a house museum, part of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River area.

Congress agreed to the transfer in 1948, and three years later Independence National Historical Park was founded, incorporating those properties and administered by the National Park Service ( NPS or Park Service ).

The National Park Service ( NPS ) is the U. S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

Most of the direct management of the NPS is delegated by the Secretary to the National Park Service Director, who must also be confirmed by the Senate.

* National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Washington, DC: NPS Division of Publications, 1991.

* NPS: official Cedar Breaks National Monument website

* Official NPS website: Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine

* Official NPS website: Montezuma Castle National Monument

* Official NPS website: Wupatki National Monument

During the 1950s Kelly was deeply troubled by NPS management acceding to demands of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission that Capitol Reef National Monument be opened to uranium prospecting.

* Official NPS website: Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

* Official NPS website: Fort Matanzas National Monument

* Official NPS website: Buck Island Reef National Monument

Floyd Monument NPS

The Petroglyph National Monument is a major asset for the City of Albuquerque and New Mexico but its rich trove of cultural and natural resources is threatened by the inability of the City and the National Park Service ( NPS ) to cooperatively manage the two-thirds of the monument that is City-owned land, according to documents posted on June 6, 2012 by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ( PEER ).

NPS manages the historic fort as a unit of Fort Sumter National Monument.

* Official NPS website: Ocmulgee National Monument

* Official NPS website: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

Fort Stanwix National Monument is a United States National Historic Site in Rome, New York managed by the National Park Service ( NPS ).

* Official NPS website: Fort Pulaski National Monument

* Official NPS website: Pipestone National Monument

* NPS Tule Lake Unit of WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument visitor information

* Official NPS website: Navajo National Monument

* NPS website on Navajo National Monument, http :// www. nps. gov / nava / historyculture / index. htm

* Pipe Spring National Monument Official NPS website

* The Origin and Development of Cabrillo National Monument 1981 NPS administrative history

* Official NPS website: Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument

* Official NPS website: Tonto National Monument