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Who did Theodore Roosevelt call the "father of the national parks" because he signed into law the country's first national park, Yellowstone, in 1872?

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President Ulysses S. Grant

On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law. The world's first national park was born.

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