Northeast
Together New York, New Jersey and New England have almost forty great national park sites, ranging from the spectacular coastal parks of Acadia, Cape Cod and Fire Island to the rich historical sites depicting the birth and growth of our nation. NPCA’s Northeast regional work will eventually grow to encompass these many sites throughout the Northeast.
Envisioning Gateway
"Envisioning Gateway," an international public design competition for Gateway National Recreation Area, called for ideas to transform Gateway and began a real dialogue about its future as an iconic national park. View the designs that will transform this site into a world class park. People's choice winners to be announced shortly.
Right now NPCA's new Northeast Regional Office is working to build support for the national park sites in and immediately around New York City, which face perhaps the largest under-funding in the National Park System but hold tremendous potential for restoration.
Prominent parks include the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Governor’s Island, Grant's Tomb, and Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway), but the national parks of New York City total more than 27,000 acres of parkland available for recreation as well as numerous historical and cultural sites.
Accounting for nearly ninety-nine percent of that acreage is Gateway, NPCA’s largest current Northeast regional focus. Including not only beachfront, salt marsh, maritime shrub, and coastal grasslands, Gateway encompasses the majority of the remaining natural areas surrounding the Hudson River estuary. Gateway also lies in a major botanical transition zone where northern forest species meet southern ones, and at the juncture of the Atlantic Flyway, serving as a major stop-over point for all eastern avian migrants.
Yellowstone to Yukon
NPCA helped sponsor an exhibition of spectacular photographs at the American Museum of Natural History that chronicled the migration of wildlife along routes between Yellowstone and Yukon. The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) works to preserve these ancient wildlife corridors. The accompanying brochure, Routes for Wildlife, describes the Y2Y initiative and proposes a similar initiative for east coast barrier islands.
Download the brochure (PDF 4 MB).
