Why was the United States the first country to designate a national park, back in 1872?

July 29th, 2009 | by Kert |
Mark S asked:


Yellowstone in 1872 became the first national park in the world. Why didn’t the more “enlightened” countries of canada or sweden or germany or france or cuba or Venezuela come up with one first?
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MIGUEL
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