The place discussed in the article isn&#x27;t a national park.<p>The National Park Service manages 84 million acres:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;National_Park_Service#Holdings" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;National_Park_Service#Holdings</a><p>Fish and Wildlife manages 150 million acres:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_Fish_and_Wildlif...</a><p>The Bureau of Land Management, uh, manages 247 million different acres:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bureau_of_Land_Management" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bureau_of_Land_Management</a><p>and the United States Forest Service manages yet another category of land, 193 million acres:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_Forest_Service" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_Forest_Service</a><p>I didn&#x27;t sort by size there because the USFS is organized under the USDA instead of the Department of Interior.<p>(For scale, the United Kingdom is ~60 million acres)