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Press Release New Poll Finds National Parks Are Unifying, Bipartisan Issue in West Virginia Across party lines, West Virginians support their representatives in Congress taking a strong stand in supporting policies to protect and strengthen national parks.
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Press Release President Biden Proposes to Bring More Staff and Resources Back to Struggling National Parks "This budget would reinvest in our parks and would start to bring them out of the financial hole they’ve been trying to dig out of for over a decade." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA President and CEO
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Press Release National Parks Conservation Association Honors Advocates for Inclusion in Parks The ceremony will honor individuals who have worked to protect and enhance our parks.
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Press Release Victory: President Biden, Parks Leaders Welcome Amache National Historic Site "By preserving Amache, we can ensure that as a country we confront our mistakes, honor the stories of those who were unjustly imprisoned, and protect the site for future generations" -- NPCA's President and CEO Theresa Pierno
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Blog Post NPCA Mourns Passing of Board Chair and Friend Vic Fazio I share my deepest condolences with all who admired this great conservationist, mentor and inspiration.
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Press Release Federal Court Rejects Weld County Colorado’s Request to Delay Reductions of Smog Pollution From Oil, Gas Operations Environmental groups support federal appeals court's decision and called for accountability.
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Press Release Parks Group Expands Great Lakes Expertise, Opens Michigan Field Office NPCA's Midwest office welcomes Kira Davis -- "a tremendous advocate for the Great Lakes, where her passion and personal connection to the land brings people together."
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Blog Post She Was the First 7 more women who broke barriers at national parks
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Press Release New National Poll Finds Parks Are Political and Physical Solution to Address Climate "As the worsening climate crisis continues to threaten our health and our communities, this poll shows national parks unite us and offer solutions for addressing it."
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Magazine Article Lofty Heights We were young, brown outsiders in the world of outdoor adventure. Climbing Grand Teton marked a turning point.
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Magazine Article Obed Refuge How a backyard national park helped heal a family in transition.
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Magazine Article Full Circle At Bears Ears National Monument, a crew of young men from the Pueblo of Zuni is caring for the cliff dwellings their ancestors built 800 years ago.
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Magazine Article Loss & Legacy On the lives of science luminaries Edward O. Wilson and Thomas E. Lovejoy.
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Magazine Article Turtle Troubles New research from Padre Island National Seashore highlights the toll that ingesting plastic is taking on green sea turtles.
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Magazine Article On Thin Ice As the climate warms, Lake Superior’s ice coverage shrinks — and opportunities to visit Apostle Islands’ ice caves and experience other winter rites of passage along the shore are slowly disappearing.
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Magazine Article Charley Harper’s World Remembering the late artist — and his vibrant national park art — on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
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Magazine Article Park Protein A Chicago-based company has created a new, Earth-friendly protein from a fungus that was accidentally discovered in Yellowstone.
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Magazine Article A River Spectacle Endangered mussels live on (and on) in the St. Croix.
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Blog Post Trailblazers: Women Who Broke the ‘Green Ceiling’ Women have always been a part of our national parks, even when they weren’t widely recognized for their contributions. This two-part series for Women’s History Month highlights 14 women who broke barriers in their fields.
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Blog Post Commemorating Yellowstone's 150th Birthday with the Park's 'First Family' The world's first national park marks a significant milestone today — but its history reaches much further back than 1872 and involves the stories and cultures of more than two dozen Tribes.
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Blog Post Can Parks Bring Us Together on Climate? As the president shares his State of the Union address with a bitterly divided Congress, love for our parks is one of the few things they can actually agree on — and still fight for.
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Press Release Biden Administration Acknowledges Legal Problems with Interior’s Ambler Road Approval But the administration’s action does not stop flawed approvals of the Ambler Road through the wildlands of Northwest Alaska, including Gates of the Arctic National Preserve.
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Blog Post Telling a Supreme Story Only one national park site specifically interprets the history of a Supreme Court case. The enduring importance of this ruling continues to define what equality means in our systems of education.
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Blog Post Confronting America's Dark Past 80 years ago, the federal government imprisoned innocent civilians for their Japanese ancestry. Today, survivors and their descendants fight to preserve the sites where these injustices took place — and to not let history repeat itself.
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Press Release Amache Japanese American incarceration site on verge of becoming national park site Unanimous Senate and House passage puts preservation campaign waged by survivors, descendants and advocates near completion
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Press Release $1B Investment in Toxic Pollution Clean-up a ‘Game-Changer’ for Great Lakes, Parks and Communities Cleaning up this corridor, which extends for 100 miles through northern Ohio and Cuyahoga Valley National Park, will be good for the people and wildlife that visit and call this area home.
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Press Release Parks Group Welcomes Bill To Create Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Mojave Desert Bill introduced in Congress would protect nearly 450,000 acres in Nevada that are sacred to tribes and provide important habitat for native wildlife
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Press Release National Parks Continue to Set Visitation Records but Remain Underfunded and Understaffed The 2021 visitation report continues to prove what we have long known to be true - America’s beloved national parks are popular. At odds with this steady surge in visitation is an alarming decline in park staffing.
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Policy Update NPCA Position on H.R. 3540, H.R. 4677, & H.R. 5973 NPCA shared positions on H.R. 3540, H.R. 4677, and H.R. 5973 ahead of a legislative markup held by the House Natural Resources Committee scheduled for February 16, 2022.
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Policy Update NPCA position on H.R. 2021 NPCA sent the following letter to Members of the House Natural Resources Committee ahead of a hearing scheduled for February 15th, 2022.
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