National Preserve

Little River Canyon National Preserve

National Preserves are areas in the United States that have been designated as nature reserves by Congress . They are mostly administered by the National Park Service . Exceptions are the Valles Caldera National Preserve under the administration of the United States Forest Service and the Preserve portion of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve of the Bureau of Land Management .

The preserves are similar to the national parks in terms of their protection status , but in contrast to these, mining, the extraction of crude oil / gas and mostly hunting and trapping are permitted.

Examples of National Preserves are:

• The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in Alaska, which protects the remains of Beringia , a land bridge between North America and Asia that existed during the Pleistocene Ice Age .
• The Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve , a protected area on the Yukon with paleontological and archaeological sites.

Extensions of protected areas with a higher protection status were designated as Preserves several times in order to be able to continue the existing uses (especially hunting) in them. Examples are Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve in Idaho or the Katmai National Park & ​​Preserve in Alaska .

List of National Preserves

National Preserve	State
Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve	Alaska
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve	Alaska
Big Cypress National Preserve	Florida
Big Thicket National Preserve	Texas
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve	Idaho
Denali National Park and Preserve	Alaska
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve	Alaska
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve	Alaska
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve	Colorado
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve	Louisiana
Katmai National Park and Preserve	Alaska
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve	Alaska
Little River Canyon National Preserve	Alabama
Mojave National Preserve	California
Noatak National Preserve	Alaska
Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve	American Virgin Islands
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	Kansas
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve	Florida
Valles Caldera National Preserve	New Mexico
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve	Alaska
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve	Alaska

Web links

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• List of National Park Service protected area categories