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Navajo National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Navajo National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Voyageurs National Park

(Encyclopedia)Voyageurs National Park, 218,200 acres (88,340 hectares), N Minnesota. The park contains forested lake country noted for its sports fishing and glacial features. In the 18th cent. the region was a tra...

Wupatki National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Wupatki National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Stonewall National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Stonewall National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Cabrillo National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Cabrillo National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Yellowstone National Park

(Encyclopedia)Yellowstone National Park, 2,219,791 acres (899,015 hectares), the world's first national park (est. 1872), NW Wyo., extending into Montana and Idaho. It lies mainly on a broad plateau in the Rocky Mt...

Yoho National Park

(Encyclopedia)Yoho National Park yōˈhō [key], 507 sq mi (1,313 sq km), SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Rocky Mts. at the Alta. border; est. 1886. It lies W of the Continental Divide, adjoining Banff and Koot...

Yosemite National Park

(Encyclopedia)Yosemite National Park yōsĕmˈĭtē [key], 748,436 acres (302,881 hectares), E central Calif.; est. 1890 as a result of the efforts of conservationist John Muir. Located in the Sierra Nevada, it is ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory

(Encyclopedia)Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientific research center, at Upton (town of Brookhaven), Long Island, N.Y. It was founded in 1947 by Associated Universities, a management corporation sponsored by ni...

Buffalo National River

(Encyclopedia)Buffalo National River, Ark.: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...