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When Yellowstone was established in 1872, poachers, railroads, and mining interests viewed the fledgling park greedily, reflecting a nineteenth-century view of wilderness as empty land on which to capitalize. The United States Army’s thirty-two year protection of Yellowstone from 1886-1918 bought time for the new national park idea to be accepted. As this completely new idea gained hold, wild places came to be seen as worth protecting for their own unique value, and Fort Yellowstone remains a tangible reminder of the Army’s role in protecting Yellowstone National Park and, through that, the park idea worldwide.
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