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The purpose is, as mandated by Congress in the National Park Service Organic Act (1916), "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."

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