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Trump Says He Will Order US to Reopen Alcatraz as Federal Prison (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's a national park. Doesn't Congress have to allocate and remove national parks?

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https://www.nps.gov/alca/learn/index.htm

Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz Island, was established by Congress in 1972.

Well, they allocated it, at any rate.

EDIT: It sounds like they disbanded this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Hill_National_Game_Preserve

In 1904, Congress authorized a memorial park at the site, and President Theodore Roosevelt established it as Sullys Hill Park. Though not part of its official name, it would be called Sullys Hill National Park, the meaning of "national park" not yet standardized, as this site's small size and lack of a significant landmark was inconsistent with other national parks.[1] It was first named after General Alfred Sully,[2] son of the painter Thomas Sully who gained his reputation by carrying out several massacres of Dakota including at the Battle of Whitestone Hill.

On March 3, 1931, during the Great Depression, the United States Congress transferred the park to be managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service as a wildlife refuge, where hunting is permitted with the Spirit Lake Tribe having both fishing and hunting rights. It is one of only seven National Parks to have been disbanded. Of these seven parks, only White Horse Hill and Mackinac National Park in Michigan, now Mackinac Island State Park, are no longer under the control of the National Park Service.