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New Opportunities for Our Parks
An open letter from NPCA's President and CEO Tiernan Sittenfeld following the 2026 mid-term elections.
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What We Found After the Grand Canyon Flood
The first raft trip to reach Phantom Ranch the morning after Bright Angel Creek flooded in August included a NPCA staff member on vacation. What she and her friends found…
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Sweeping Permitting Bill Risks Irreversible Damage to National Parks
Congress is close to passing a sweeping permitting bill, but serious concerns remain about what it will cost our national parks.
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9 Spooky National Park Sites
October brings shorter days and spookier nights. If you’re looking for a few mysterious places to explore before telling ghost stories by the campfire, these quaint and curious settings offer…
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Private Interests Threaten More Parks
National parks belong to all of us. But land exchanges and development at two additional parks threaten to put private interests over public resources.
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Blog Post Fossils: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Celebrating ancient trackways, and all fossils, for National Fossil Day, Oct. 14.
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Blog Post We Toured Grand Staircase-Escalante After the Boundary Was Shrunk. Here’s What We Experienced With few signs and no detailed map to guide us, we drove down the geologic Grand Staircase — which is no longer fully protected, putting treasured natural and cultural resources at risk.
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Blog Post FAQ: Sell-Off Efforts at Yosemite We answer frequently asked questions about the administration’s proposal to sell off a piece of the park for private development.
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Blog Post Postcards from Roadless Areas What do designated roadless areas look like and what do they mean to national parks? NPCA colleagues share their experiences from walks through three roadless woods.
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Blog Post 8 Park Sites That Tell the Gullah Geechee Story Among the Sea Islands of the Southeast, aspects of African culture live on through food, spiritual traditions, the arts, community — and even a language spoken nowhere else in the world.
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Blog Post Fat Bears at a Crossroads As Fat Bear Week 2026 begins, a proposed mining project in Alaska threatens the future of brown bears.
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Blog Post FAQ: Border Destruction at Big Bend The Trump administration destroyed parts of Big Bend National Park in August. We share updates, answer frequently asked questions and share how you can help.
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Blog Post Selling Off and Selling Out Three main patterns by the federal government are chipping away at national parks and public lands. Our experts break them down.
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Blog Post 25 Years Since 9/11 For over a century, the National Park Service has helped us learn and reflect on the history of our nation. The terrorist attacks on the U.S. are among those stories.
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Blog Post 10 Must-Do Experiences at Katahdin Woods and Waters If you need any motives to visit Maine’s north woods, we offer one for every year of this young park site’s existence. Once here, you’ll likely find even more.
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Blog Post Standing with Those Affected by the Grand Canyon Floods In the immediate response and long recovery ahead, NPCA supports Grand Canyon National Park.
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Blog Post The Great Mayfly Swarms of Lake Erie Summer mayflies along Ohio’s Great Lakes coastline may be nasty and annoying, but they share glad tidings about environmental recovery. NPCA and its partners played a role.
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Blog Post 6 Ways to Celebrate National Park Week in 2026 Free entrance, an NPCA Day of Action and more highlight this year’s annual celebration, which also marks the National Park Service’s 110th anniversary.
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Blog Post Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: 5 Recent Decisions Affecting Wildlife A summary of recent events affecting national park wildlife and the landscapes it inhabits.
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Blog Post A Bedrock Preservation Law at Risk The National Historic Preservation Act protects our national heritage — but the administration has it in its crosshairs.
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Blog Post New Border Barriers Threaten Our National Parks. Communities Are Fighting Back It all started in February, when eagle-eyed park advocates noticed that the Trump administration had quietly made changes to an online map.
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Blog Post A Veteran's Perspective on the Triumphal Arch The proposed structure at the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery would be a “great dishonor ... to our fallen soldiers and their families.” Here are three reasons why.
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Blog Post ‘You See the Best of People in the Parks’ A new documentary about a former Congresswoman’s park journey highlights the value of our national parks and how they can bring us together.
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Blog Post Our National Parks Deserve Their Full Story As a Next Generation Council member explains, protecting these places is inseparable from the stories parks hold and the people those stories represent.
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Blog Post Behind the Facade, Yosemite is in Chaos We outline three major issues at Yosemite caused by mismanagement and what NPCA is doing about them.
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Blog Post Rehabilitating Minute Man Thanks to Great American Outdoors Act funding, the site of the Revolutionary War’s opening battle can welcome visitors for many years to come — while some of its buildings earn revenue for the National Park Service.
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Blog Post Bulldozing 'America's Front Yard' The Trump administration is bypassing congressional oversight, preventing public participation and disregarding the laws that protect places that belong to all Americans.
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Blog Post 5 National Parks Most Threatened by Mining Exploration Demand for critical minerals is surging worldwide, fueling a 21st-century gold rush across the United States — and some of our nation’s most iconic landscapes are directly in its path.
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Blog Post Qué esperar al visitar los parques en el verano de 2026 ¿Planeas visitar un parque esta temporada? Prepárate para el tráfico, las multitudes y las situaciones impredecibles.
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