Slideshow World for Wednesday September 15, 2021

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The frequency and severity of droughts in recent years have scientists concerned about the prospect of the West, where reservoirs and water systems were constructed based on a climate that no longer exists, entering into a state of permanent drought. Farmers have responded to drought conditions by tilling ruined crops, leaving fields fallow, and swapping out the crops they normally grow with more drought-resistant ones. While droughts have been becoming increasingly common over the last two decades, this year’s drought is exceptional in reach—affecting nearly every state west of Wisconsin—as well as in its extremity. Usingdata from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Stacker identified reservoirs throughout Western states which reached below 75% of their typical capacity due to droughts. We combined this data with theU.S. Agricultural Census, last completed in 2017, to find what crops are grown in each of the counties experiencing greater water stress. Visit thestacker.com for similar lists and stories. © 2021 Stacker Media, LLC; Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC [Tweet It]( - [Facebook It]( Sponsor [Could ditching your 30-year mortgage help you save BIG?]( If you owe less than $356,362 on your home and haven't missed a mortgage payment in 6 months, use Congress's mortgage stimulus program for the middle class. You'll be shocked at how much you can save. [Learn more]( [Oldest national parks in America]( Lauren Liebhaber [ Oldest national parks in America ]( [See full slideshow »]( We live in a land of giants, legends, and ancient history. Early descriptions of the regions that would eventually become our national parks, most often told by explorers or laborers, were so foreign and fantastical to the average person that they simply weren’t believed. Even today, the parks’ grandeur can only fully be comprehended in person. But the majesty of Yosemite, Sequoia, and Yellowstone proved all too real, prompting a radical idea; some say it was America’s best idea ever. The idea was simple and conceived in earnest: preserve these lands so that they might flourish and feed the human spirit of every generation to come. Thanks to the National Park Service (NPS), more than 14 billion visitors since 1904 have had the chance to do just that: to experience the impressive scale, history, and raw beauty of these environments. The creation of the national parks as we know them today—over 400 areas, with 85 million acres in 50 states and other territories—was a hard-won achievement. It was a battle fought by pioneers, politicians, scientists, and artists alike to preserve these environments well beyond the scope of their own lives. Individuals like John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and countless others were integral in facilitating these protections. In August 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, which officially established the National Park Service as a federal bureau in the Department of the Interior. The NPS was tasked with protecting the national parks and monuments already established up to that point and any future parks that would be created. A 1933 executive order transferred 56 pre-existing monuments and historical sites to the purview of the NPS. Today, new national parks are created through acts of Congress. The importance of these lands goes back further than explorations of the Western wilderness, further than the passage of protective legislation. Many of the regions in which the national parks reside are significant cultural heritage sites for the communities of American Indians, Native Alaskans, and Native Hawaiians who have lived and flourished in those lands since time immemorial. The first stewards of these lands lived here long before the NPS; protecting and sharing these histories is an essential duty of the NPS as it attempts to preserve the legacy of its parks. Using a variety of historical sources such as the National Park Service, Stacker compiled a list of the 25 oldest established national parks in America. The area of each park is current as of 2017. Because 2020 was such an outlier year in terms of visitors because of COVID-19, we included visitor numbers from 2019 as well. Any parks that have been disbanded since their founding or have merged with other national parks are not included in the list. Read on for an overview of the history and defining characteristics of the 25 oldest national parks. 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