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Blog Post A Retired Ranger Who Might Inspire You Lawmakers have until Jan. 30 to reach a long-term spending agreement to fund national parks so they can remain open, staffed and protected. A new documentary shows one retired ranger’s effort to galvanize public support for park funding and staffing.
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Press Release Senate Rejects Devastating National Park Funding and Staffing Cuts but Leaves Door Open to Future Threats “NPCA and park advocates across the country have been sounding the alarm on the need for park funding and staffing for months, and Congress listened." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Blog Post A Ranger Discovered Part of Yosemite’s Untold History. Now It's At Risk of Being Lost Again A dark laundry building in Yosemite underscores who helped build this national park and the National Park System — and the threat to preserving the history of these immigrants.
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Press Release Parks Group Applauds Bipartisan Support for Reducing Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions "Polling finds that 87% of Americans support restoring or preserving wildlife habitat connectivity and improving migration corridors on lands and waters within and beyond park borders" - NPCA Legislative Director Christina Hazard.
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Press Release Parks Group Calls On Senators to Oppose Amendment Greenlighting the Sale of National Parks “A vote in favor of Senator Lee’s amendment is a vote to sell America’s national parks. And we won’t stand for it." Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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Blog Post Sen. Lee Wants to Pave the Way to Sell National Parks. We Must Stop Him A vote in favor of Sen. Mike Lee’s proposed amendment is a vote to sell America's national parks. That's unacceptable.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 1897, ESA Amendments Act NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources ahead of a markup scheduled for December 17, 2025.
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Policy Update Position on S. 2881 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ahead of a business meeting scheduled for December 17, 2025.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 845, H.R. 1366 & H.R. 4776 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House of Representatives ahead of floor votes expected the week of December 15, 2025.
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Press Release Parks Group Responds to Reports of Interference With Park Staff Performance Reviews Ordering superintendents to arbitrarily grade their staff lower than they deserve, with little regard for the truth or the agency’s own standards, is wrong.
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Press Release Administration Claims to Lift Hiring Freeze, But Continues to Hamstring Park Staffing National parks are powered by people, and without enough staff, some of our country's most iconic landscapes and its invaluable history are at risk.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 5729, H.R. 6365 & H.R. 6380 NPCA submitted the following positions to member of the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for December 11, 2025.
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Press Release New Bill Would Better Protect National Parks from Mining Threats "We know the next boom-and-bust rush for critical minerals is coming for our public lands, and this bill takes long-overdue steps to protect our national parks and our American heritage."—Charlie Olsen, NPCA's Energy & Public Lands Policy Manager
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 6373, Air Permitting Improvements to Protect National Security Act NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce ahead of a markup scheduled for December 10, 2025.
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Blog Post All Good Things... After 21 years at NPCA and more than a decade as president and CEO, Theresa Pierno gets ready to say goodbye.
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Press Release Administration Orders Sham Review of Park Gift Shops "Banning history books from park stores and cracking down on park T-shirts and keychains is not what national park visitors want from their Park Service."
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Policy Update Position on S. 446, S. 573, S. 791, S. 1131, S. 1777, S. 1870, S. 2270, S. 2308, S. 2385, S. 2708 & S. 2970 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks ahead of a hearing scheduled for December 9, 2025.
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Policy Update Position on S. 90, S. 764, S. 1228, S. 1319, S. 1476, S. 1737, S. 2042 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee ahead of a hearing scheduled for December 2, 2025.
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Blog Post 10 Facts You May Not Know About the Western Arctic Caribou Herd This majestic herd in Alaska travels a distance equivalent to New York City to Seattle each year. But can it continue in the face of human-caused threats?
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Press Release Parks Group Raises Questions and Concerns Over New National Park Fee Policy "Any policy that keeps people from visiting our national parks is a problem...it’s unclear how these changes will be implemented to reduce impacts on park visitors and staff." - Emily Douce, NPCA's Deputy VP of Government Affairs
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 4931 & H.R. 5063 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for December 2, 2025.
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Magazine Article Battlefields & Beyond NPCA staff members recommend visiting these eight national park sites to help understand the genesis of the United States.
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Magazine Article To Tell The Truth National Parks have a duty to share the full, messy, complicated story of the founding of the country. As the nation turns 250, NPCA’s resident historian warns against whitewashing history.
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Magazine Article New Orleans Pilgrimage An artist travels south to experience jazz in a city where it’s a historical tradition and living art.
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Magazine Article The First American Revolution? A century before the Revolutionary War, Pueblo people defeated and expelled a European colonial power.
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Magazine Article Bunker Hill Hero Salem Poor, a Black soldier, was singled out for his bravery in one of the first clashes of the American Revolution, but his role in the battle is a mystery that historians have been wondering about for more than 200 years.
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Magazine Article Justice Served A new designation for Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area celebrates two remarkable women and the landmark suit that emancipated them.
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Magazine Article Wild River, Ghost Lake Drought is a crisis for the West. But it has also resurrected a long-lost desert river.
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Magazine Article A Cinematic Ode to Parks A Q&A with the director of “Out There: A National Parks Story."
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Magazine Article The Long Road to Recovery Appalachian communities along the Blue Ridge Parkway are struggling to bounce back as big sections of the park remain closed to visitors because of hurricane damage.
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