Our Advocacy

• Advocacy in Action Stand Up to Polluters at Indiana Dunes EPA must enforce the Clean Water Act to protect this national park site from toxic chemicals.
• Advocacy in Action Working with Veterans to Protect National Parks NPCA has been working for years to meaningfully engage the military community — including veterans, active duty, reservists and military families — inviting them to join us in supporting and advocating for parks through service projects and a variety of advocacy actions.
• Victory Navajo Citizens Stop Developers from Building an Egregious Resort and Tramway on the Rim of the Grand Canyon Developers have been attempting for years to build a massive 420-acre resort hotel and aerial tramway right on the rim of the Grand Canyon. In February 2018, Western Navajo citizens unanimously opposed allowing this destructive project on their land, effectively ending the threat to this landmark national park and its deeply significant cultural sites.
• Advocacy in Action California's National Parks: Struggling for Clean Air It might come as a surprise that California’s crown jewel national parks — Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Joshua Tree and Yosemite — struggle with some of the dirtiest air of any parks in the nation.
• Advocacy in Action Parks, Not Pipelines! President Trump’s infrastructure proposal would strip important protections that keep gas pipelines out of national parks. Since the 1920s, pipeline companies have needed to get congressional approval for a right-of-way across National Park Service lands to construct an oil and gas pipeline. This is an important provision, ensuring that the public gets a vote before allowing national park land to be used to transport fossil fuels.
• Advocacy in Action Protect America's Marine Monuments Healthy oceans are critical for maintaining healthy national parks.
• Advocacy in Action Protect Buffalo National River The water quality of America's first national river and the region’s tourism economy are threatened by an industrial swine facility spreading millions of gallons of waste in the watershed.
• Advocacy in Action Support Increased National Park Funding Preserving America’s heritage should be a bipartisan issue.
• Advocacy in Action Oil and Parks Don’t Mix We can't let Congress and the Trump administration prioritize oil and gas development over the health and safety of national parks and the people who love them.
• Advocacy in Action Support Grizzly Bear Recovery in the North Cascades Help the threatened grizzly bear thrive again in its native Pacific Northwest home.
• Advocacy in Action Support Storm Recovery Funding for the National Park Service Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria devastated communities. They also caused unprecedented damage to national parks. Hundreds of millions of dollars are needed to repair these parks and protect the National Park Service budget, which is already underfunded and cannot absorb the huge cost of hurricane recovery.
• Advocacy in Action Protect Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve A proposed 220-mile industrial access road would cross over one hundred rivers and streams, interfere with subsistence lifestyles of rural Alaskans, and travel into Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Sound like a bad idea? We think so, too.
• Victory Trump Administration Backs Off Steep Increases to Park Fees The Department of the Interior will impose more moderate increases across all fee-collecting sites in the National Park System.
• Advocacy in Action Don’t Derail Clean Water Protections Dismantling the Clean Water Rule puts people and parks at serious risk.
• Advocacy in Action Wolves at Isle Royale: An Island Dilemma Isle Royale National Park is a remote island in Lake Superior where only two wolves remain, the lowest population in more than 50 years. Scientists believe a natural recovery in the population is unlikely due to inbreeding. As top predator, wolves play a critical role in the health of the island ecosystem.
• Advocacy in Action Protect Historic Jamestown from Transmission Towers Dominion Virginia Power wants to construct 17 massive, obstructive electric transmission towers across the James River at Jamestown as well as 27 additional towers throughout the landscape. This terrible plan would forever scar historic Jamestown, Colonial National Historical Park, the Captain John Smith Trail and other beloved historic sites that tell our shared American story.
• Advocacy in Action Trump Administration Seeks to Undermine Methane Rules Prioritizing industrial development over public and environmental health, two federal agencies seek to reverse course on methane standards that would improve air quality, benefit taxpayers and reduce climate change affecting national parks.
• Advocacy in Action Don't Drill Near Dinosaur The Bureau of Land Management is considering offering oil and gas leases within 5 miles of Dinosaur National Monument, but drilling has no place at the doorstep of this Southwestern park and its world-class fossils.
• Advocacy in Action Defending Clean Air Protections for Parks Air pollution is among the most serious threats facing national parks, threatening visitors’ health, clouding scenic vistas and altering our climate. To restore clean air to national parks, we work to defend the clean air laws that protect them.
• Advocacy in Action Don’t Drain Our Desert Water Help stop a private company from moving forward on a harmful water-mining project near several beloved national park sites in California
• Victory Casino Project Cancelled at Gettysburg Local developer ends his third attempt to build a racetrack and casino near this hallowed Civil War battlefield.
• Advocacy in Action Don’t Risk Wild Land and Fish for a Massive Mine Near Lake Clark Plans for the largest open-pit mine in North America threaten one of Alaska's wildest national parks and the region’s thriving fisheries.
• Advocacy in Action Saving Pronghorn at Yellowstone National Park By modifying miles of fencing, NPCA volunteers have worked for years to help Yellowstone pronghorn migrate safely and survive.
• Advocacy in Action New Monument in Maine's Spectacular North Woods Is Under Threat In August 2016, President Barack Obama designated more than 87,500 acres of land along the East Branch of the Penobscot River in Maine as the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. But the Trump administration could attempt to alter or rescind the national park site’s federal protections following an April 2017 executive order mandating a federal review of national monuments created since 1996.

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