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Protect National Parks by Protecting Waterways

Tell the Obama Administration to protect our water by adopting new Clean Water Act guidelines and proceed with developing new rules that protect wetlands and streams surrounding and flowing into national parks and our Great Waters, like the Everglades.

Thank Secretary Salazar for Protecting the Grand Canyon from New Uranium Mines

Show your appreciation for the Department of the Interior's decision to stop new uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park. Send Interior Secretary Salazar a thank-you today!

Thank President Obama for Using the Antiquities Act at Fort Monroe

President Obama has just used the Antiquites Act for the first time during his presidency to proclaim Fort Monroe in Virginia a national monument. Please take a moment to send a personal thank-you note to the president letting him know you support this.

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Research and Reports

Cleaning up the Haze: Protecting People and America’s Treasured Places
January 2012

Cleaning up the Haze: Protecting People and America’s Treasured Places asks EPA to drop its proposed BART rule exemption so that our country’s most iconic natural places are fully protected from unsightly and unhealthy air.

Opportunity Knocks
January 2012

In December 2011, the National Parks Conservation Association, Houston Wilderness and Rice University’s SSPEED Center commissioned Harbinger Consulting Group to conduct a study to evaluate the potential economic impacts of the proposed Lone Star Coastal National Recreation Area in Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston and Matagorda counties along the upper Texas Gulf Coast.

Protecting Our Chesapeake, Protecting Our National Parks
November 2011

“Protecting Our Chesapeake, Protecting Our National Parks” explores two historical parks in the Chesapeake watershed, Colonial National Historical Park on the James and York rivers and Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine on the Patapsco River. It recounts what the rivers looked like before significant agricultural practices, oyster harvesting, and extensive human development. It recommends options to restore the Chesapeake Bay and their national parks to a highly productive ecosystem with cleaner water, fewer toxic contaminants, and more abundant aquatic and terrestrial life. Our national parks help us recognize what has been lost and so help us see what we have the opportunity to regain.

Made in America
November 2011

America’s national parks drive local economies, provide quality jobs and affordable family vacations, and protect irreplaceable resources, all for a tiny fraction of our federal budget. But now our nation’s greatest places face significant long-term funding cuts which could mean trouble for many iconic parks—as well as the rangers, visitors, and wildlife who enjoy them.

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Center for Park Research Reports

The State of America's National Parks
June 2011

This report provides the most comprehensive overview ever conducted on resource conditions in America’s national parks. A decade in the making, The State of America’s National Parks analyzes 80 national parks across the country to gauge how America’s most precious places are faring in the face of pollution, invasive species, climate change, energy development, adjacent land development, and chronic funding shortfalls.

National Parks of the Colorado River Basin: Water Management, Resource Threats, and Economics
April 2011

This report by NPCA’s Center for Park Research identifies the effects that large dams have on natural and cultural resources in Dinosaur National Monument, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and Grand Canyon National Park. The report also considers the economic value of national parks as well as the economic value of hydropower generated by large dams in the Colorado River Basin.

Annual Update
May 2011

The Center for Park Research summarizes its completed 2010 projects and includes feedback the Center has received from National Park Service staff, as well as examples of how NPCA uses the Center’s publications in its work, in the 2011 Annual Update.