<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18783"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>And plenty of people will tell you that Hot Springs, AR, can claim to be first, too, since it was set aside as a federal reserve way back in (I think) 1838... </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As noted, I have to believe that the first quarter will be Yellowstone, but maybe Tamsen can come up with more to "prove" this. Nothing I see in the actual bill demands Yellowstone, and the Wyoming governor _could_ select Grand Teton, or Fossil Butte, or Devil's Tower... Could.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/28/2009 4:31:51 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, johnwarnock@msn.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Verdana>Just my thoughts on the quarters...Yosemite has often laid claim as the first land set apart as a "national site" (roughly 10 years prior to Yellowstone) so that it could well be the first site.  The language in the bill was very carefully worded, otherwise it would have said "National Park".  The concern over Grand Teton is another real issue, and it would be much later in issue.   That's it for now.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT><DIV CLASS="aol_ad_footer" ID="f3a3009c28cbf23a67ec70ff4c73ffd2"><br/><font style="color:black;font:normal 10pt arial,san-serif;"> <hr style="margin-top:10px"/></font></DIV></BODY></HTML>