Chomp 8 There are thirty-one national parks in the United States. These national
parks were set aside "for the benefit and enjoyment of the people" and
to preserve from injury or spoliation of all timbers, mineral deposits,
natural curiosities, or wonders" within the parks and their retention in
their natural condition." These words were taken from the Yellowstone
Act. This Act, passed in 1872, was passed by Congress when Yellowstone
became our nation's first national park. In 1916, the National Park Service
was developed to take care of the parks.
There was considerable local opposition to the Yellowstone National Park
during its early years. Some locals feared that the regional economy would
be unable to thrive if there remained strict federal prohibitions against
resource development or settlement within park boundaries. Local
entrepreneurs advocated reducing the size of the park so that mining,
hunting, and logging activities could be developed. Also, numerous bills
were introduced into Congress by Montana representatives who sought to
remove the federal land-use restrictions
1. Why does the author of the paragraph use the bolded quotation?
a to tell how Yellowstone would operate
b. to show the number of parks
c. to explain why the US started national parks
d. to illustrate Congress law
2. Why was there local opposition to the Yellowstone National Park during its
early years?
à Locals feared that wildlife there would be in danger.
b. Locals were afraid of forest fires.
c. Locals were afraid hunting and logging activities would suffer.
4. Locals were afraid it would be bad on the economy
3. Paraphrase the bolded quotation.