Between the 18th and 19th centuries there was a shift in emphasis from using plants and animals as key to the new nation's identity to highlighting vast landscapes as core to US identity.The perceived "wildness" of many US landscapes remains core to contemporary US identity, even though it is based largely on myths about human settlement and land use.From its founding, the National Park Service has focused on documenting the human impact on the physical landscape.The reality of extensive historic human settlement and land use throughout the US is core to the nation's identity as a "global settlement".

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