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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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Magazine Article Battling Data Advocates slow the advancement of two massive data center projects bordering national park sites.
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Magazine Article Shutdown Rundown How did the 43-day closure of the government affect national parks?
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Blog Post The Longest Government Shutdown in US History Has Ended. What’s Next for National Parks? We break down the impacts to parks and their staff during the 43-day shutdown and the outlook for the months ahead.
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Blog Post Indigenous Earthworks and Where to See Them These structures once dotted a large section of North America. Most have been lost over the past 150 years, but the National Park Service preserves and interprets some of those that remain.
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Press Release Proposed Assault on Endangered Species Act Would Push Park Wildlife Toward Extinction “The proposed changes, coupled with the mass firing of dedicated staff at US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service, put the fate of species like Pacific salmon, the ghost orchid, and the red-cockaded woodpecker in a potentially dire position. Once a species is extinct, it’s gone. Is that the legacy we want to leave behind?”–Stephanie Adams, NPCA's Director of Wildlife
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Blog Post 2025 Holiday Gift Ideas from NPCA Experts Looking for the perfect holiday gift for the park lover in your life? Our NPCA staff and volunteer experts share their top gift recommendations from our partners who support NPCA’s park protection work.
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Press Release Parks Group Urges Congress to Protect National Park Funding and Staffing as Budget Agreement is Made to End Longest Government Shutdown in History "Congress must heed the will of the American people and come together to fund parks so they can remain open, staffed and protected." - Kristen Brengel, NPCA's SVP of Government Affairs
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Press Release ‘Nobody Wants This’: New Poll Finds Majority of Americans Oppose Attacks on National Parks and Park Staff “This poll reaffirms that Americans are united in their support for our national parks. Protecting our national parks is a bipartisan issue." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President & CEO
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Blog Post Turkey Trotting Through Our National Parks Think you know where to find this bird? Its roaming spaces might surprise you.
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Blog Post Hanging by a Thread Unsustainable tactics are keeping some national parks open during the federal government shutdown. What happens when those tactics are no longer workable?
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Policy Update Position on S.J. Res. 69, Barred Owl Management Strategy NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate ahead of an expected floor vote the week of October 27, 2025.
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Press Release The East Wing of the White House was part of the National Park System. Now it’s gone. Like so many Americans, we are horrified that the president just took a wrecking ball to the People’s House. If our most important symbol of freedom and democracy can be destroyed in the blink of an eye, what’s next?
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Press Release Alaska, America's National Parks at a Crossroad with Interior Department Announcement "Permitting the Ambler mining road ignores the cost, the wishes of the people of the region, the impact to America’s wildlife and national parks, and the engineering challenges of building a 211-mile road across melting permafrost" -- NPCA's Jim Adams
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Press Release Court Filings Reveal Secretary Burgum’s Plans to Terminate Key National Park Staff "Secretary Burgum’s actions are making it impossible for the Park Service to protect the very places and resources Americans hold dear." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
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