But there is hope, for Conservation Commissioner Bontempo has tagged the sanctuary as the kind of place the state hopes to include in its program to double its park space.

Had we taken a lien on a state park??

Harassed state park officials often have more campers than they know what to do with.

A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns.

Unlike Yosemite, there was no state government that could assume stewardship of the land, so the federal government took on direct responsibility for the park, the official first national park of the United States.

It is now a state park accessible by ferry.

* Seneca Creek State Park, a state park in Montgomery County, Maryland

The Chesapeake Bay, while not a national park, is protected by both state and federal legislation, and the jointly run Chesapeake Bay Program which conducts restoration on the bay and its watershed.

* Waterloo State Recreation Area, a state park in Michigan

Washington State Parks located on the island include Deception Pass State Park ( the most visited state park in Washington ), Joseph Whidbey State Park, Fort Ebey State Park, Fort Casey State Park, Possession Point State Park, and South Whidbey State Park.

A key task of federal and state park rangers and game wardens is to enforce laws and regulations related to hunting, including species protection, hunting seasons, and hunting bans.

* La Estanzuela state park, about south of Monterrey, a river and forested area.

* Backbone State Park, oldest state park in Iowa

** Bond Falls Scenic Site, a state park for the above waterfall

Bannack, Montana, USA, a well-preserved ghost town that is now a state park.

A movement to have the area protected was soon started, and National Park Service Director Stephen Mather responded by proposing that Bryce Canyon be made into a state park.

The Antoniuk Nature Reserve () is a park in the city that preserves the natural state of a forest fragment characteristic of the Białystok Upland, with a dominant mixed forest of hazel and spruce.

California did not set up an administration for the park until 1866, when the state appointed Galen Clark as the park's guardian.

The problems that Yosemite Park had under state control was one of the factors in establishing Yellowstone National Park as the first completely national park in 1872.

" In 1883, Governor Grover Cleveland drafted legislation authorizing acquisition of lands for a state reservation at Niagara and The Niagara Falls Association, a private citizens group founded in 1882, mounted a great letter writing campaign and petition drive in support of the park.

Preservationists ' efforts were rewarded on April 30, 1885, when Governor David B. Hill signed legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park.

Commercial interests have continued to encroach on the land surrounding the state park, including the construction of several tall buildings ( most of them hotels ) on the Canadian side.

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in the U. S. state of Tennessee, with a population of 167, 674 as of the 2010 census.

It is located 30 miles each from the state boundaries of Georgia to the east ( Dade County ) and Tennessee to the north, about 45 miles from Huntsville, Alabama to the west and about 55 miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee to the northeast.

Real estate in a small town environment and competitive state business tax rates both appealed to newcomers who bought homes and / or commute to jobs in Chattanooga, Huntsville and Atlanta.

Rossville is a suburb of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the cities are merely separated by the Tennessee / Georgia state line.

East Ridge is bordered by Chattanooga to the west, north and east, and the Georgia state line to the south.

Chattanooga is a town in Comanche and Tillman counties in the U. S. state of Oklahoma.

It has been rumored that TSU is in the process of adding 3 satellite campuses in Memphis, Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Chattanooga, Tennessee hoping to reach more students across the state of Tennessee.

The major cities of East Tennessee are Knoxville ( near the center of East Tennessee ), Chattanooga ( in southeastern Tennessee at the Georgia border ), and the " Tri-Cities " of Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport located in the extreme northeasternmost part of the state.

Lookout Mountain is located at the northwest corner of the U. S. state of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and along the southern border of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

After his political career ended, Patton became involved in several commercial ventures to establish and build railroads in the state, notably the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.

Prentice Cooper State Forest, atop Suck Creek Mountain near Chattanooga is named in his honor, as are buildings at virtually all of Tennessee state universities.

In 1958, Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement asked Hooker and prominent Nashville attorney Jack Norman Sr. to become involved in the state's investigation of Raulston Schoolfield, an allegedly corrupt Chattanooga state judge.

Unable to convince the state legislature to grant him another term ( U. S. Senators were chosen by state legislatures until the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment ), he returned to his Chattanooga law practice, dying in that city in 1937 and being buried in its Forest Hill Cemetery.

The new 4th ran diagonally across the state, from heavily Republican areas near Tri-Cities, Knoxville and Chattanooga to the fringes of the Nashville suburbs.

Key was a member of the Tennessee state constitutional convention of 1870, which composed the basic instrument of government of the state still in effect, and in August of the same year was elected chancellor of the Chattanooga ( 3rd ) division.

It began as the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, chartered in Nashville in December 11, 1845, and was the first railway to operate in the state of Tennessee.

It consists of three primary campuses in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Martin, a health sciences campus in Memphis, a research institute in Tullahoma and various extensions throughout the state.

That same year, the Tennessee state legislature gave UT permission to establish a campus in Chattanooga, which was the largest city in Tennessee without a public university.

There are also graduate medical education programs in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville, family medicine centers in Knoxville, Jackson and Memphis, and public and continuing education programs across the state.

He was ranked as the 7th best high school player in The Sporting News Top 100 and was ranked 1st in the state of Tennessee by the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

The department is organized into four regions of the state: Knoxville ( Region 1 ), Chattanooga ( Region 2 ), Nashville ( Region 3 ) and Jackson ( Region 4 ).

McKenzie Arena ( also called The Roundhouse ) is the primary basketball arena for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in Chattanooga in the U. S. state of Tennessee.