Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/February 26, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 15:10, 14 February 2013‎ (UTC)



Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park in northwestern Wyoming, established on February 26, 1929. Approximately 310000 acre, it includes the major peaks of the 40 mi Teton Range and most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Human history dates back 11,000 years, when the first nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated into the region. The area was explored by mountain man John Colter in 1807, but permanent white settlers did not inhabit it until the 1880s. Efforts to preserve the area as a national park began in the late 19th century and the eventual expansion of the park in 1950 was a watershed in the land conservation movement. Though the Teton Range is the youngest mountain chain in the Rocky Mountains, some of the rocks in the park are the oldest found in any U.S. National Park, at nearly 2.7 billion years. More than 1000 species of vascular plants, dozens of species of mammals, 300 species of birds, more than a dozen fish species and a few species of reptiles and amphibians exist. The park is a popular destination for mountaineering, camping and fishing, and has over 200 mi of hiking trails.

Promoted in 2012, but February 26th is anniversary date of the park establishment (1929). Article is widely covered on many other language wikis....most recent similar article was September 18th (Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve). 4 points?--MONGO 18:28, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support: It's nice to know places like this still exist.--Chimino (talk)
 * Comment Worlds End State Park was run on 21 December, so no bonus points — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:26, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 points (widely covered = 2, date relevance = 1). Blurb was 1,700+ characters, trimmed to 1,190 characters (rather closer to the 1,200 target). Please fix the three deadlinks. BencherliteTalk 22:01, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Will fix dead urls etc in 24-72 hours.--MONGO 20:40, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem, still 19 days that need to be filled before anyone has to make a decision about this nomination. BencherliteTalk 20:45, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I checked and found only one reflink that was dead so I replaced it. Another codes as 403, but is live and goes directly to the url. Is that what you meant? Will double check again several days before this is main-paged if it gets selected for the date.--MONGO 23:51, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks OK now, the toolserver check sometimes returns problems when there aren't any, such as this one. Thanks for doing this. BencherliteTalk 23:58, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support per significant anniversary; haven't had anything from the Rocky Mountain West for several months. (World's End was, BTW something of a clever joke TFA due to the 12.21.12 thing)   Montanabw (talk) 22:57, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, naturally --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:17, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, educational, encyclopedic, high quality content. Good article for students, readers, and editors alike. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:31, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, per above Fredlyfish4 (talk) 01:14, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:41, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Truthkeeper (talk) 22:50, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. Excellent article. I have slight qualms about the very last section on Accommodations, which could very easily turn into an advertisement. But overall good. RomanSpa (talk) 12:48, 10 February 2013 (UTC)