The National Park Service celebrates its 207th birthday this week. It oversees a system that now includes 201 National Parks and Historic Sites, 86 National Monuments, 31 National Memorials, 25 National Battlefields and Military Parks, plus scores of Nature Preserves and Reserves, Recreational Areas , Scenic Rivers , Sea Shores , Lakesides , Trails, Parkways, and Special Designations like the White House and National Mall. There are now Park Service facilities in every state and within an hour’s travel of 90% of the population. National Parks are 50 years older than the Park Service dating to the creation of Yellowstone National Park but were haphazardly managed on sort of an ad hoc basis by the under-staffed and funded Departmen...