JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - The last in a series of stamps commemorating national parks has been selected, and Grand Teton National Park didn’t make the cut.
The U.S. Postal Service is issuing the stamps for the National Park Service’s centennial.
The agencies worked with a citizens’ advisory committee to choose 16 parks to honor with a stamp, and this week they named Yellowstone National Park as the last one.
Park Service spokeswoman Kathy Kupper in Washington, D.C., noted many hard decisions were made. The National Park Service has seven regions, and officials wanted one stamp from each, along with a selection of natural and historic sites, she said.
“Many people know about the iconic parks, but this shows the diversity,” Kupper said.
There was concern about having two parks from Wyoming represented, the Jackson Hole News and Guide reported (https://tinyurl.com/jrd8mfl).
Grand Teton park spokeswoman Denise Germann said a stamp featuring an Albert Bierstadt painting of an alpine lake backed by the Tetons on a stamp honoring Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vermont, will have to do for now.
Rockefeller’s father had a major influence on Grand Teton park, buying 33,000 acres and donating them to the federal government.
“It just goes to show what kind of impact that great iconic range has, communicated through a painting, through a national park site in Vermont,” Germann said. “It’s pretty darn cool to have that iconic vista connect to another place on the East Coast.”
She added more than 400 sites in the National Park Service were considered for the commemorative stamps.
“How do you narrow all those possibilities down to just 16?” Germann said.
Some of the parks chosen for the stamps are famous, including Yellowstone and Grand Canyon, while others are less well-known, including Haleakala National Park, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, and Bandelier National Monument. Also selected were the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Gulf Island National Seashore and Kenilworth Park.
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Information from: Jackson Hole (Wyo.) News And Guide, https://www.jhnewsandguide.com
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