Million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the Summer Travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary well be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park Service Experiences and we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 2027488001. What had been your experience at National Parks across the country, including a new one designated this week in the state of maine. You can also send us a tweet at spambingswj or join us on facebook. Com cspan. Good thursday. Thanks very much for being with us. If you pick up todays wall street journal or Washington Post, two editorials commemorating the National Park service including this from Terry Anderson. Happy 100th birthday National Parks and Jonathan Janis writing these lands are your lands, america. Read them online at wsj. Com. Some background on the National Park service. It was signed into law on this date by president Woodrow Wilson in 191
Into its operations. Then the anniversary of the magna carta. Later, donald trump joins joni ernst at an event in iowa as it could be to veterans. Host good morning. A live look at the Lincoln Memorial and the mall in washington, d. C. With the Washington Monument in the foreground and the u. S. Capitol on this thursday, august 25. Today marking a Centennial Anniversary. It was on this date 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signing a bill that created the National Park service. Today an estimated 20,000 employees, more than 200,000 volunteers, staffing americas 413 National Parks, memorials, battlefields and Historic Sites. And last year alone, nearly 310 million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the Summer Travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary well be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park Service Experiences and we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 2027
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Noelle Straub is the deputy managing editor of Stateline. Before joining Pew, she edited and reported for E&E News, guiding stories for three daily publications with unparalleled environmental and energy coverage. After reporting on public lands battles and then helping run the congressional team at E&E, she launched an innovative natural resources team including reporters across the country. She also has extensive experience covering national politics and policy, serving as Washington correspondent for six Lee newspapers in Montana and Wyoming and for the Boston Herald, for whom she spent much of 2004 on the presidential campaign trail. Previously she was the lead Senate reporter for The Hill and got her start in journalism at a small weekly paper in her native Wisconsin. Over her career she has written about everything from health care and taxes to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Friday night football. She graduated from the College of William and Mary and earned a master’