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Earlier this month, the National Parks Conservation Association celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of our country's National Park system. Perhaps trying to steal a little limelight from Al Gore, President Bush managed to avoid his father's inactivity in this arena by using the 1906 Antiquities Act to establish a national monument in New York (an African Burial Ground) and creating the world's largest protected marine area off Hawaii's coast. (His pop joins the illustrious ranks of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as the only 3 presidents not to do anything with the national parks act while they were in office. But even their public approval ratings never dipped quite as low as W's.)