America’s Newest National Park
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Topic: America’s Newest National Park
Posted By: TasunkaWitko
Subject: America’s Newest National Park
Date Posted: 15 September 2005 at 06:30
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Montana is home to the first national park
(Yellow-stone), the first international peace park (Glacier, together with Waterton in Canada), and now, the newest national park, Bear Paw Battlefield, one of 38 sites along the Nez Perce Na-tional Historical Park. The battlefield was declared a na-tional park on May 24, 2005. The site is one of the most famous western battlefields of all, as the place where Chief Joseph surrendered following a long flight from his homelands in Idaho. After leading nearly 800 Nez Perce toward the Ca-nadian border all summer long (along the way, outmaneuver-ing the pursuing U.S. Army in several engagements), Chief Joseph laid down his weapons and delivered a speech ending with the well-known words: "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." The battlefield, which is a unit of the Nez Perce National Historical Park, preserves the site of the last battle of the Nez Perce War and is managed by the superintendent of Big Hole National Battlefield. On May 24th, the day the site was officially declared a national park, the National Park Service (NPS) presented the state of Montana and The Conservation Fund with plaques to show its apprecia-tion for their assistance in the land exchange that transferred ownership of the site from the state to the NPS. An annual commemoration of the battle is scheduled for October 8. Nez Perce National Histori-cal Park joins seven other units of the national park system with a presence in Montana: Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (site of Custer's Last Stand) in Crow Agency, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Deer Lodge, and Big Hole National Battlefield in Wisdom. Bear Paw Battlefield is in Montana's Russell Country, sixteen miles south of Chi-nook on County Highway 240. To find out more, go to www.nps.gov/nepe. ------------- TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana  Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen |
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 15 September 2005 at 10:06
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Nice to see any new park. But Ron, isn't 99 percent of Yellowstone in Wyoming???? You Montana guys will claim anything....and you already have too much good stuff in the state. BEAR |
Ship Glacier east of the Missisippi.Posted By: TasunkaWitko
Date Posted: 16 September 2005 at 07:41
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