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Environmental Preservation in the Progressive Era
The 1916 Congressional bill to establish the National Park Service.

The 1916 Congressional bill to establish the National Park Service.

Citation Information
United States Congress, House Committee on the Public Lands, “National park service ... Report,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/d2a6c123425bd7466ed4b06a4a7ad5b6.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Library of Congress via HathiTrust.

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