Which national park, established in 1872, is part of the natural heritage celebrated by America250?

Yellowstone National Park, established in 1872, is part of the natural heritage celebrated by America250.

President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act on March 1, 1872. The law set aside more than two million acres in the territories of Montana and Wyoming, creating the world’s first national park.

Yellowstone is famous for geothermal features including Old Faithful, the Grand Prismatic Spring, and the Yellowstone Caldera. It also protects major habitats for bison, grizzly bears, wolves, elk, and many other species.

The park’s creation followed expeditions that documented its unusual landscapes and helped persuade lawmakers that the area should be protected from private development. Yellowstone is sometimes called the first national park in the United States and the world; the broader “world’s first” claim refers to its pioneering national-park status, not to the first protected landscape of any kind.