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Blog Post Making Our Mark on Capitol Hill: Advocating for the Great Lakes and National Parks The Great Lakes are healthier than they were a generation ago, but NPCA continues to promote their need for protection so we can maintain people’s health and economic well-being.
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Press Release NPCA Mourns the Passing of Representative Raúl Grijalva "From Tucson to D.C., NPCA was proud to work alongside Representative Grijalva and his dedicated staff, and we will continue to uphold his conservation legacy" -- NPCA President and CEO Theresa Pierno
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 1820, the FLASH Act NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for March 11, 2025.
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Policy Update Position on Senate Mining and Minerals Bills NPCA, along with partners, submitted the following letter to members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ahead of a hearing scheduled for March 12, 2025.
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Magazine Article Chasing the Ice The art of climbing frozen waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park.
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Magazine Article Monuments for All Former President Joe Biden’s public lands legacy includes 10 new national monuments. Meet your new parks.
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Magazine Article Wading In My extended family has an abiding passion for St. John and Virgin Islands National Park. Could my first trip possibly live up to the hype?
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Magazine Article Reclaiming Wahhoga In 1969, the National Park Service evicted the last Native community from Yosemite National Park. After decades of tireless advocacy, area Tribes are again stewarding a small corner of the park.
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Magazine Article Greener Acres An ambitious initiative seeks to restore native grasslands at dozens of Eastern national park sites.
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Magazine Article Exotic Antics They are huge, blue and eye-catching — but nilgai antelope from Asia are unwelcome interlopers in two South Texas national park sites.
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Magazine Article Whistleblowers A warming climate is shrinking the habitat of North Cascades’ hoary marmots while expanding the range of some predators. Can the rodents adapt in time to survive?
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Magazine Article From Sea Scrap to Sculpture Artists transform marine debris into art, educating national park visitors in the process.
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Magazine Article A Cape Crisis An update on the collapsing houses at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
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Magazine Article An Honorable Hike Remembering veterans with wreaths at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Blog Post Parks Are Being Dismantled Before Our Very Eyes Under the second Trump administration, we are in an unprecedented moment in the long history of national park protection. The situation has become dire, but a record number of park lovers are speaking up on behalf of parks.
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Press Release Parks Group Names Mark Segal Ambassador for Change Together We Will Reach More People with Impact of Stonewall and Inclusive Stories Told Within our Parks
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Blog Post Seeing Recovery at Yellowstone Nearly three years after major floods devastated portions of Yellowstone National Park, recovery is underway. But climate change and staffing shortfalls bring new threats to the world’s first national park as it prepares for peak season.
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Press Release National Park Service Sets Visitation Record Amid Historic Staffing Cuts “The National Park Service just reported the highest visitation in its history, as the administration conducts massive firings and threatens to close visitor centers and public safety facilities" -- NPCA's Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Kristen Brengel
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Press Release Parks Group Condemns Erasure of LGBTQ+ History from Park Service Website The federal government is undermining National Park Service efforts to maintain an accurate and objective accounting of our country’s history.
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Blog Post 11 National Park Cameos in Movies Check out — or revisit — these 11 films where parks played a starring role.
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Press Release Parks Group Warns of Dismantling of the National Park Service "Quite simply and astonishingly, this is dismantling the National Park Service as we know it, ranger by ranger and brick by brick." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Blog Post The 13 National Parks Devoted to Women’s History Women comprise more than half of the population and make history virtually everywhere. Yet, only 13 U.S. national park sites specifically commemorate some aspect of women’s history.
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Press Release Parks Group Responds to Deepening National Park Staffing Crisis as Hundreds Resign “With hundreds of park staff taking the administration’s buyout offer, the Park Service will lose a wealth of expertise, experience and knowledge they will never get back." -- Kristen Brengel, SVP of Government Affairs for the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)
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Press Release Fort Peck Tribes, Conservation Groups Defend Yellowstone Bison Plan in Court "The National Parks Conservation Association stands with our national mammal against the attack from Montana's Governor and supports the slow and steady progress solidified by the final Yellowstone bison management plan” -- NPCA Greater Yellowstone Senior Program Manager Michelle Uberuaga
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Press Release Park Advocates File Amicus Brief to Protect Historic Battlefield Wilderness Battlefield has so many lessons left to teach us. But those lessons are about war, loss, and reconciliation, not data centers.
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Policy Update Position on Senate Budget Reconciliation Votes NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the Senate ahead of expected floor votes on February 20, 2025.
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Blog Post Lost Jobs, Broken Hearts and Harms to National Parks Employees terminated from the National Park Service Feb. 14 speak out to share their stories, frustration and anger — and how the loss of their dream jobs will affect our national parks.
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Press Release Yellowstone Bourbon Announces Donation Milestone with National Parks Conservation Association Yellowstone Bourbon has donated a total of $1,000,000 to preserving and protecting national parks as one of NPCA’s largest corporate donors.
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Press Release Relief of National Park Seasonal Hiring Overshadowed by Reckless Staff Cuts A Thousand National Park Staff Lose Jobs Today
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Press Release Parks Group Responds to Removal of Trans Contributions at Stonewall National Monument "Erasing letters or webpages does not change the history or the contributions of our transgender community members at Stonewall or anywhere else." -- NPCA's Timothy Leonard
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