Our Advocacy

• 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 Yellowstone's Grizzly Bears Need Strong Protections to Thrive The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is moving forward with plans to remove Yellowstone-area grizzly bears from the Endangered Species List, a decision that defies the best available science and could set grizzly bear recovery back by decades.
• 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
• Advocacy in Action Don’t Derail Clean Water Protections Dismantling the Clean Water Rule puts people and parks at serious risk.
• 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 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.
• Advocacy in Action One of Our Newest National Monuments Is at Risk Bears Ears National Monument preserves critical desert lands and cultural sites while enhancing protections around Canyonlands National Park, Natural Bridges National Monument and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
• Advocacy in Action Reauthorize the Land & Water Conservation Fund NPCA urges Congress to renew and fully fund one of our nation's most important conservation tools protecting public lands from incompatible development.
• Advocacy in Action Protect the Antiquities Act The Antiquities Act of 1906 is one of the most important tools available for the preservation of public, federal lands and historical sites for all Americans to enjoy.
• Advocacy in Action An Oil Refinery Has No Place Next to Theodore Roosevelt National Park Protect the iconic North Dakota badlands from an ill-conceived facility that would pollute the air
• Advocacy in Action Help Fix the National Park Service Repair Backlog As the National Park Service enters its second century, the new administration and Congress have an extraordinary opportunity to provide needed and overdue resources to address the more than $11 billion infrastructure repair backlog.
• Advocacy in Action Don't Cut Funding to the Chesapeake The Chesapeake watershed supports the health of more than 50 national parks, and we can't afford to reverse important gains to water quality and habitat restoration
• Advocacy in Action Keep the Great Lakes Great: Support Restoration Funding in the Midwest Since 2010, a federal program known as the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative has funded a variety of projects to help water quality, wildlife habitat and a range of other issues. Congress could slash this funding — a move that could reverse years of progress for the region’s 13 national parks.
• Advocacy in Action Commercial Spaceports Could Threaten Canaveral and Cumberland Island The commercial space industry is an exciting and growing field. But the race for space should not put our national seashores at risk.
• Advocacy in Action National Heritage Areas Preserve America’s Landscapes and History From the Motor City to the Arabia Mountains, we should invest in the cost-effective partnerships that share America’s stories and create jobs around the country
• Advocacy in Action Protect Buffalo National River The water quality of America's first national river and the economic stability of the region are threatened by an industrial pig farm in Newton County, Arkansas.
• Advocacy in Action We Need Our Rangers! No Cuts to National Park Service Staff A January 2017 memorandum by President Trump aims to halt most federal hiring. But the National Park Service is already understaffed, and cuts to personnel would make a bad situation worse.
• Advocacy in Action Stop Alaska’s War on Wolves and Bears The state of Alaska filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior in January 2017 in an attempt to dismantle recently finalized hunting regulations on lands managed by the National Park Service.
• Advocacy in Action Say No to Oil and Gas Drilling Next to Zion National Park BLM could lease lands for energy development within one mile of this popular park, which would create unnecessary risks for visitors, the environment and the local tourism industry
• Advocacy in Action Congress Fails the Public: Why NPCA Will Continue to Defend Clean, Safe National Park Waters In February 2017, Congress voted to dismantle the Stream Protection Rule, which would have safeguarded streams from pollution created by mountaintop removal and surface coal mining.
• Advocacy in Action Monitoring National Park Laws and Policies During the Presidential Transition An overwhelming majority of voters support national park protection, and we must ensure our federal government maintains high standards for clean air and water, robust funding, responsible energy development, and other critical issues
• Advocacy in Action Don’t Let a Highway Destroy a Piece of History at Valley Forge A proposal to expand the Pennsylvania Turnpike would put irreplaceable historic structures and a Class A Wild Trout Stream at risk of irreparable harm from flooding because it fails to include a proper stormwater management plan.
• Advocacy in Action Protect Eagle Mountain from Dangerous Development Proposals Just outside the boundary of Joshua Tree National Park, the region known as Eagle Mountain has been at the center of controversy over inappropriate, harmful development proposals for years. Incorporating these lands into the park could help protect them from the latest threat, the Eagle Crest Pumped Storage Project. This massive energy development stands to pump millions of gallons of water from the fragile desert aquifer in and around the park.

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