Editing Yellowstone National Park (section)

==Research and recognition==
[[File:Heinrich Berann NPS Panorama of Yellowstone without labels.jpg|thumb|[[Pictorial map]] by [[Heinrich C. Berann]] (1991); scale exaggerated]]
The expansive cultural history of the park has been documented by the 1,000 [[archeology|archeological]] sites that have been discovered. The park has 1,106 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Yellowstone National Park|historic structures]] and features, and of these [[Obsidian Cliff]] and five buildings have been designated [[National Historic Landmarks]].<ref name="facts"/> Yellowstone was designated an [[International Biosphere Reserve]] on October 26, 1976, and a UN [[World Heritage Site]] on September 8, 1978. The park was placed on the [[List of World Heritage in Danger]] from 1995 to 2003 due to the effects of tourism, infection of wildlife, and issues with [[invasive species]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/activities/documents/activity-43-2.pdf |title=The State of Conservation of World Heritage Forests |last=Patry |first=Marc |author2=Bassett, Clare |author3=Leclerq, Benedicte |date=March 11–13, 2003 |publisher=Proceedings of the 2nd World Heritage Forest Meeting |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126235156/https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/activities/documents/activity-43-2.pdf |archive-date=January 26, 2012 }}</ref> In 2010, Yellowstone National Park was honored with its own [[Quarter (United States coin)|quarter]] under the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.<ref name="quarters">{{cite web |url=http://www.americathebeautifulquarters.gov/coins/2010/yellowstone |title=Yellowstone Quarter Introduced |work=United States Mint |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820131326/http://www.americathebeautifulquarters.gov/coins/2010/yellowstone/ |archive-date=August 20, 2010 }}</ref>

Justin Farrell explores three moral sensibilities that motivated activists in dealing with Yellowstone. First came the utilitarian vision of maximum [[exploitation of natural resources]], a characteristic of developers in the late 19th century. Second was the spiritual vision of nature inspired by Romanticism and the transcendentalists in the mid-19th century. The twentieth century saw the biocentric moral vision that focuses on the health of the ecosystem as theorized by [[Aldo Leopold]], which led to the expansion of federally protected areas and the surrounding ecosystems.<ref>Justin Farrell, ''The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict'' (Princeton UP, 2015).</ref>

The Heritage and Research Center is located at Gardiner, Montana, near the north entrance to the park.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/yell/historyculture/collections.htm |publisher=National Park Service |title=Heritage and Research Center |access-date=November 24, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124015611/http://www.nps.gov/yell/historyculture/collections.htm |archive-date=November 24, 2009 }}</ref> The center is home to the Yellowstone National Park's museum collection, archives, research library, historian, archeology lab, and [[herbarium]]. The Yellowstone National Park Archives maintain collections of historical records of Yellowstone and the National Park Service. The collection includes the administrative records of Yellowstone, as well as resource management records, records from major projects, and donated manuscripts and personal papers. The archives are affiliated with the [[National Archives and Records Administration]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/yell/historyculture/archives.htm |title=Yellowstone National Park Archives |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=November 20, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203014125/http://www.nps.gov/yell/historyculture/archives.htm |archive-date=December 3, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/locations/affiliated-archives.html |title=Affiliated Archives |publisher=National Archives |access-date=November 20, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107203257/http://www.archives.gov/locations/affiliated-archives.html |archive-date=January 7, 2010 }}</ref>