A tour of America's national parks
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Acres and acres of nature
The National Park Service manages nearly 400 national parks which serve more than 275 million visitors a year.
The park services, by the numbers:*
• 121,603,193 objects in museum collections
• 84,000,000 acres of land
• 4,502,644 acres of oceans, lakes, reservoirs
• 85,049 miles of perennial rivers and streams
• 68,561 archeological sites
• 43,162 miles of shoreline
• 27,000 historic structures
• 2,461 national historic landmarks
• 400 endangered species
• 391 national parks
• 40 national heritage area
* Numbers are cumulative through the end of FY2008
(Text: Caitie Leary/MNN)
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