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This campaign resulted in the creation of the NPS. On August 25, 1916, President [[Woodrow Wilson]] signed the [[National Park Service Organic Act]] that mandated the agency "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations".<ref>{{cite web |date=May 14, 2018 |title=Quick History of the National Park Service |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/quick-nps-history.htm |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=National Park Service |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309170544/https://www.nps.gov/articles/quick-nps-history.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NPS Organic Act |url=https://www.justice.gov/enrd/nps-organic-act |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421002242/https://www.justice.gov/enrd/nps-organic-act |archive-date=April 21, 2022 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=Department of Justice|date=April 13, 2015 }}</ref> Mather became the first director of the newly formed NPS.<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=Directors of the National Park Service |url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/hisnps/npshistory/directors.htm |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=National Park Service |archive-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121014849/https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/hisnps/NPSHistory/directors.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> | This campaign resulted in the creation of the NPS. On August 25, 1916, President [[Woodrow Wilson]] signed the [[National Park Service Organic Act]] that mandated the agency "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations".<ref>{{cite web |date=May 14, 2018 |title=Quick History of the National Park Service |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/quick-nps-history.htm |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=National Park Service |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309170544/https://www.nps.gov/articles/quick-nps-history.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NPS Organic Act |url=https://www.justice.gov/enrd/nps-organic-act |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421002242/https://www.justice.gov/enrd/nps-organic-act |archive-date=April 21, 2022 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=Department of Justice|date=April 13, 2015 }}</ref> Mather became the first director of the newly formed NPS.<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=Directors of the National Park Service |url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/hisnps/npshistory/directors.htm |access-date=April 20, 2022 |website=National Park Service |archive-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121014849/https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/hisnps/NPSHistory/directors.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
On March 3, 1933, President [[Herbert Hoover]] signed the Reorganization Act of 1933. The act gave the president the authority to transfer national monuments from one governmental department to another.<ref name=":5">{{cite web |date=March 11, 2016 |title=The NPS in Changing Times |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/npshistory-changing-times.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421002752/https://www.nps.gov/articles/npshistory-changing-times.htm |archive-date=April 21, 2022 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=National Park Service}}</ref> Later that summer, new president [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] made use of this power after NPS Deputy Director [[Horace M. Albright]] suggested that the NPS, rather than the [[United States Department of War|War Department]], should manage historic | On March 3, 1933, President [[Herbert Hoover]] signed the Reorganization Act of 1933. The act gave the president the authority to transfer national monuments from one governmental department to another.<ref name=":5">{{cite web |date=March 11, 2016 |title=The NPS in Changing Times |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/npshistory-changing-times.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421002752/https://www.nps.gov/articles/npshistory-changing-times.htm |archive-date=April 21, 2022 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=National Park Service}}</ref> Later that summer, new president [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] made use of this power after NPS Deputy Director [[Horace M. Albright]] suggested that the NPS, rather than the [[United States Department of War|War Department]], should manage historic American Civil War sites.<ref name=":5" /> | ||
President Roosevelt agreed and issued two [[executive order]]s to implement the reorganization. These two executive orders transferred to the NPS all of the War Department's historic sites as well as national monuments that the [[United States Department of Agriculture|Department of Agriculture]] had managed and parks in and around Washington, D.C. that an independent federal office had previously operated.<ref name="Shaping">The National Parks: Shaping the System; National Park Service, Dept of the Interior; 1991; pg 24</ref> | President Roosevelt agreed and issued two [[executive order]]s to implement the reorganization. These two executive orders transferred to the NPS all of the War Department's historic sites as well as national monuments that the [[United States Department of Agriculture|Department of Agriculture]] had managed and parks in and around Washington, D.C. that an independent federal office had previously operated.<ref name="Shaping">The National Parks: Shaping the System; National Park Service, Dept of the Interior; 1991; pg 24</ref> | ||