Entry fees will be waived at national parks and federal public lands on Saturday, Sept. 28, in honor of the 31st National Public Lands Day.
This includes national monuments, forests, recreation areas, seashores, wildlife refuges, historical sites, battlefields and grasslands. The day is organized and led by the National Environmental Education Foundation.
Additionally, with the presidential election around the corner, Lawn Love ranked 22 Presidents Who Preserved National Parks.
To rank the presidents, the site considered the acreages of 94 different national parks, national military parks, national preserves, and national trails. However, it did not include all public lands; conservation lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service and NPS units, such as national historic sites, national historic parks and national monuments, were not included.
Jimmy Carter topped the list, preserving 40,465,590 acres, edging out Woodrow Wilson with 12,063,124 acres, Franklin D. Roosevelt with 7,413,574 acres and Calvin Coolidge with 4,775,644 acres.
Separately, Indianapolis-based foundation Lilly Endowment Inc. gave the U.S. National Park Foundation a record-breaking $100 million grant.
