Remote, rugged, and majestic, North Cascades National Park is one of the Pacific Northwest's crown jewels. Efforts to establish a park began as early as 1892, but gained traction only after World War II as interest in Wilderness preservation grew amid mounting concerns about the impact of timber harvesting in national forests. Troubled by the National Park Service's policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service's promotion of increased logging, conservationists launched a grassroots campaign and eventually leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the public land agencies. Politicians, agency leaders, and conservationists compromised, and in 1968 created Washington's magnificent third national park.